On Wednesday, March 14 the Blunt administration reversed its earlier position denying the increase in Missouri’s minimum wage to tipped employees.  More than 62,500 tipped employees in Missouri should see a raise in their next paycheck.Tipped employees should have gotten a raise on January 1, 2007, along with all other Missouri workers when Proposition B to raise Missouri’s minimum wage went into effect.  It has taken months of fight back from servers and the Save Our Tips campaign to get a reversal from the administration.  JwJ members collected signatures on the Save Our Tips petition and signed up servers on Save Our Tips cards to help win the campaign.  

Tipped employees are entitled to back-pay, retroactive to January 1, 2007, the date their raise went into legal effect.   We are also looking into whether servers are entitled to damages for being underpaid for more than 10 weeks. Jobs with Justice and its Workers Rights Board will continue to work with servers that signed on to the Save Our Tips campaign to ensure they actually receive the wages they deserve.  Allies in Give Missourians a Raise and the Save our Tips Campaign include ACORN; AFL-CIO; AFSCME; Brennan Center for Justice; Missouri Citizen Education Fund; Schuchat, Cook and Werner Law Firm; SEIU; UNITE HERE     

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