{"id":11791,"date":"2010-07-06T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2010-07-06T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:03:28","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-has-come-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11791","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch for the DFL smear machine to try to spin\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\">this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer says Minnesota should factor tips into the hourly pay for minimum wage workers in restaurants and other gratuity-based jobs.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting a St. Paul restaurant Monday on a listening tour, Emmer advocated for a so-called &#8220;tip credit&#8221; to the state minimum wage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is entirely about bringing jobs back to the hospitality business in Minnesota, which has suffered badly in recent years, not only from the economy but from years of ill-advised regulations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota is among seven states that currently prohibits employers paying workers less than the minimum wage if they earn tips, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, that&#8217;s only been true since 1990. \u00a0Before then, Minnesota had a tip credit also.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota has a state minimum wage of $5.25 for small employers and $6.15 for large employers, based on annual sales.<\/p>\n<p>Emmer says tying base pay to tips will &#8220;level playing field so the employers can continue to exist, survive and thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federal law permits states to drop the minimum wage to tipped employees to $2.13 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents argue tips are too volatile to count on, especially for workers at the bottom of the pay ladder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question: \u00a0are the &#8220;workers at the bottom of the pay ladder&#8221; better off hustling for tips (which <em>can <\/em>be volatile and low, and can also be really really good money), or out of work entirely?<\/p>\n<p>Because in this economy, that&#8217;s pretty much the choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch for the DFL smear machine to try to spin\u00a0this story: Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer says Minnesota should factor tips into the hourly pay for minimum wage workers in restaurants and other gratuity-based jobs. After visiting a St. Paul restaurant Monday on a listening tour, Emmer advocated for a so-called &#8220;tip credit&#8221; to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11793,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}