Denver Business Journal: Restaurant operators: Debate proposed minimum-wage hike
Ed Sealover
Denver Business Journal, Sept 14, 2016
For Colorado restaurant leaders, who are the primary funders of the campaign to defeat the minimum-wage hike on November’s ballot, a major sticking point in the proposed constitutional amendment is its provision raising the credit for tipped workers at the same monetary levels as it raises the ground-floor wage for statewide workers.
Though Colorado’s minimum wage is now $8.31 an hour, employees who receive tips as part of their jobs can get a lower base salary of $5.29 per hour with the expectation that the gratuities they...