With Paid Sick Leave on Tap in Council, Restaurant Workers Get Free Flu Shots at Jefferson
Calvin Okunoye has worked in the restaurant industry for the last 12 years and says he’s had every sort of job in the business he can think of. Most recently, after studying classical French culinary arts, he’s worked as a sous chef, executive chef and pastry chef. About a year ago, he got sick with a stomach virus just as he was beginning a new job. He was...
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Paid Sick Days Fight Beginning Between Organizing, Business Groups
Image: ROC United Two weeks after a scathing report about the Philadelphia restaurant industry was released showing local food service employees are getting the shaft, we were able to get in touch with the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association. The PRLA is a group of restaurant owners and other business interests whose goal, claimed by their website,...
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Councilman Kenney Bashes Immigration Laws at Restaurant Summit
Councilman Jim Kenney Who would have expected that yesterday’s Restaurant Industry Summit would give Councilman Jim Kenney a chance to get fired up about the immigration policies of Philadelphia, of Pennsylvania, and of the United States of America? But there he was at Tequilas, the popular Center City Mexican restaurant, going off on the injustice of treating...
Continue ReadingUPDATE: Restaurant Workers Praise California Legislator For Bill That Would Raise Minimum Wage
That didn’t take long. After a number of protests and gatherings calling for a higher minimum wage over the past month, U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) has introduced the ‘Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012.’ The bill would raise the minimum wage three times over the next three years, in 85-cent intervals for both hourly and tipped workers. It will be indexed...
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Restaurant Workers Rally for a Higher Minimum Wage
Earning minimum wage can be a bit ugly. Both the Pennsylvania and federal minimum wage stands at $7.25 per hour—which equates to $15,080 per year, assuming said minimum-wage worker takes no days off. The current minimum wage hasn’t kept up with inflation and partially accounts for why a record number of Americans are on food stamps today. And as bad as that...
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