Owner of Dempsey’s Restaurant Explains How Paying His Employees a Fair Wage Has Been Good for Business, Calls on His Competitors to do the Same
Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH) Press Release, March 28, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH – Thousands of central Ohio workers would receive a raise under new legislation supported by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Workers and a local business owner joined Brown today in Columbus to call for passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three steps and provide the first minimum wage increase to tipped employees in more than 20 years. ...
Mark Dempsey, owner of Dempsey’s Restaurant, explained how paying his employees a fair wage has been good for business and will call on his competitors to do the same. Heather Ross, a server at the restaurant will outline how raising the federal minimum wage would allow her to take care of her family while stimulating economic growth. Under Brown’s bill, tipped employees would get their first minimum wage raise in more than 20 years.
Brown is the cosponsor of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage. The bill would:
• Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from its current $7.25—in three steps of 95 cents—then provide for automatic annual increases linked to changes in the cost of living;
• Gradually raise the minimum wage for tipped workers—which currently stands at just $2.13 an hour—for the first time in more than 20 years, to 70 percent of the regular minimum wage ...