How do we fix the restaurant tipping system? with Saru Jayaraman
The TED Interview
The Sub Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers
In thee states that persisted with e sub minimum wage, it has been an overwhelmingly female population. And i i do just want to pause and say, you cannot see the wage structure in this industry as anything other than a devaluation of women's work and black life. I think the part that we really worked to point out, even pre pendemic, was that we do, as the restaurant industry, have the highest rates of sexual harassment of any industry. A successful worker in this industry, when you pay a woman a full wage, she doesn't have to put up with as much from her customer. She can say, buzz off. I can count on my wage this hour from my
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