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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what is swaying me to Yes. I had no idea so many people outside the restaurant industry were making $3.33/hour. It's inhuman and a travesty of law.

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However, this debate overlooks that in the District of Columbia, nearly 60 percent of tipped employees work in non-restaurant industries—including the hair stylists, manicurists, cosmetologists, hotel workers, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, parking lot and garage attendants, car wash workers, and others that make up the approximately 17,000 tipped workers not in the restaurant industry.
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If passed, Initiative 77 would immediately raise the base wage for tipped workers to $4.50 in July and provide increases of $1.50 every year thereafter until reaching $15.00 in 2025.[1] By 2026, the wage for all workers would be $15.00 and indexed to increases in the consumer price index.
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D.C.’s regulations provide a list of tipped employees that reaches far beyond the restaurant industry: “waiters, waitresses, counter personnel who serve customers, bus persons, server helpers, service bartenders, car wash attendants, parking lot attendants, parking garage attendants, bootblacks, hotel doorkeepers, bellhops, hat checkers, cosmetologists, manicurists, pedicurists, shampooers and aestheticians.” Out of the 17,000 tipped workers not in the restaurant industry, car wash workers represent about 500, personal care workers (like hairdressers, shampooers, and manicurists) alone number at least 1,000 in the city, hotel concierges and baggage porters around 1,500, and parking lot attendants almost 2,500.[6] Many workers in the gig economy who work for tips may also not be accounted for in official estimates.
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https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/initiative-77-vital-measure-d-c-s-almost-30000-tipped-workers/
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Cosmetologists are NOT making $3.33/hour

They get paid by service and many of them are making far more money than you are.[/quote]

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