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FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2020 file photo, Waiter Lenworth Thompson serves lunch to David Zennario, left, and Alex Ecklin at Junior's Restaurant in New York. New York City restaurants will be able to reopen for indoor dining at one-quarter capacity by Valentine's Day and big weddings can return statewide in March if infection rates continue to drop, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Several tipped workers gathered in front of the State House rallying for support of a bill that would pay them a guaranteed salary plus whatever tips they receive.
Currently, tipped workers in Maryland can be paid as low as $3.63 an hour.
“That’s been a source of poverty and sexual harassment and inequality for a workforce that’s overwhelmingly women," said Saru Jayaraman the president of One Fair Wage.
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Some restaurant workers don’t want to see this done, saying it will encourage people to not tip on their bill, limiting them to the hourly wage.
“We work really hard for the money we make and if we get our tips taken away we’re making less money, almost half the amount of money that we do for the same amount of work and it’s just not fair," said Elena James, a server for 20 years.
James says she makes between $25 and $30 an hour.
More than double the current minimum wage.
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