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Tipped restaurant and bar workers in Chicago will make $15.80 per hour through raises over the next few years as subminimum wages are banned.

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[โ€“] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think it's just in Chicago? Wage theft is the biggest type of theft in the entire nation. Dollar for dollar, it dwarfs the rest put together.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's just in Chicago, but I can only speak to my experience, which is in Chicago.