D.C. residents will vote on a proposed initiative to raise the District’s tipped minimum wage from $5.05 to $15.20 per hour before the end of the calendar year.
Initiative 82, which the D.C. Board of Elections added to the November ballot earlier this month, proposes a gradual increase to the city’s tipped minimum wage for service industry jobs like servers and bartenders during the next five years until 2027. Activists supporting Initiative 82 said the proposal is a “game-changer” for student employees working in the service industry because raised wages will provide more consistent and predictable paychecks for employees who depend on unreliable tips.
The D.C. Council overturned similar legislation in 2018 when it repealed Initiative 77, a proposal passed by just more than half of the District’s voters in June 2018.
Ryan O’Leary – the chair of the D.C. Committee to Build A Better Restaurant Industry, the organization backing the initiative – who proposed Initiative 82 to the D.C. Council, said Council members have “thwarted” ongoing efforts to raise the tipped minimum wage.
The board of elections requires ballot initiatives to receive support from 5 percent of voters citywide and 5 percent from five of the District’s eight wards.
O’Leary said the committee planned to get the initiative on the June primary ballot, but the bill was delayed after the Council redistricted wards 7 and 8 in the beginning of January. He said the board of elections directed the committee to...
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