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The D.C. Council voted on changes to Initiative 82, a controversial piece of legislation that changed how tipped workers were ...

Angry protests erupted as D.C. Councilmembers voted Monday to pass a compromise amendment partially repealing Initiative 82, ...

Initiative 82 would raise the minimum wage from $5.05 for tipped workers incrementally over the next 6 years until it is equal to the regular minimum wage in Washington, DC.

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington also called on the D.C. Council to repeal Initiative 82, citing that between May 2023 — when the tipped minimum wage rose from just over $5 to ...

Initiative 82 would raise the minimum wage from $5.05 for tipped workers incrementally over the next 6 years until it is equal to the regular minimum wage in Washington, DC.

Washington, D.C. residents voted to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, including restaurant servers, bartenders, hotel staff and other workers in the service industry. Initiative 82, a ballot ...

WASHINGTON — Of all the candidates stumping outside the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Northeast, D.C. late Tuesday evening, it was the question about Initiative 82 that resonated with some ...

Initiative 82, as proposed, would raise the city’s tipped minimum wage of about $5 per hour to match the standard minimum wage, which is $15.20 an hour, by 2027.