Minimum Wage Act Applicability - Draft Administrative Policy
Participation for Minimum Wage Act Applicability - Draft Administrative Policy has concluded.
In order to be transparent and seek input from the diverse business and labor communities, L&I is currently seeking stakeholder feedback on the draft administrative policy addressing Minimum Wage Act applicability.
We are asking the public to review the draft administrative policy by Monday, November 30, 2020.
Feedback can be submitted directly to this page via the “Submit Comments” tab, or using an attached document via the “Upload Documents” tab.
Feedback can also be submitted via the ESRules@Lni.wa.gov email box. Feedback submitted to the email box will be uploaded to this engagement site.
A virtual stakeholder feedback session to discuss the content of the draft administrative policies is being held on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Details on how to participate can be found on the timeline located on the "Review Draft Administrative Policies" page.
We see no problem with the general provisions of the law in agriculture. The problem is the amount and the release of the new minimum wage. Bankers usually want to see five year budgets. Which means we are just guessing on the largest expense because we don't know what the minimum wage will be. But the artificially inflated minimum wage is killing small business, in agriculture especially. We have no control over pricing. So wages keep going up but we have no way to pass on those costs. We used to pay more than minimum wage. But it jumped so much over the last three years, all we can do is keep up with it.
Washington State is taxing us out of business. Shameful, communist tactics. Our young people can not finds entry level jobs due to the high minimum wage and employers can not keep their doors open. Not to mention finding good employee's right now is a disaster, why work when they are getting "free" COVID money? "Tipped" employees should be paid on a different basis than non-tipped employee's. Electing NEW leadership is a great start! STOP HATING ON BUSINESS'S!!!!
Hello!
My big request as a restaurant bar owner is applying a tip wage to employees of WA state. I understand people who do not receive tips for service industry should be paid $15+ but I have done the math of some of my servers and they are getting sometimes $40 to $60 dollars an hour. I bartended in New York and I had the tip wage and was fine with it. I can not believe the taxes a restaurant owner has to pay in WA state. We need breaks where we can get them, I feel restaurants that don't "allow tips" usually still do (as a person in the service industry I am very uncomfortable without tipping) and it has turned out bad for the staff. There needs to be a better system. If they make "x" amount of tips a night their hourly tip wage should be lower. Dishwashers and cooks are vanishing because of this problem too. A bartender and a cook get the same wage, and the bartender walks with so much more in tips, in our restaurant we make them tip 20% to the cook but the bartender walks out still walk with so much more with the same skill set as the cook. Also, in the restaurant business people cover shifts so when they are sick they replace or trade shift with them with another employee or the business can not function. and a lot of employees in the restaurant business may only have one shift, paid sick leave really should be for full time employees only. We can Not afford this! Especially small restaurant with 20 or less, unless they give us tax breaks elsewhere. Thats just my piece of mind during these trying times. Hopefully we will make it thru this.