Ohioans could have a chance vote to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026.
01 February 2024 - Washington, DC - Approximately ten AAPI One Fair Wage restaurant owners from across the country who are visiting DC meet with Acting Secretary of the US Department of Labor Julie Su and are recognized for their leadership in paying livable wages to their workersRaise the Wage Ohio is collecting signatures to put a proposed constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot that would raise the minimum wage to $12.75 an hour starting Jan.
They need to collect more than 413,000 signatures by July and they currently have more then 350,000 signatures, she said. “ are very concerned that their income would go down as a result of all this,” said John Barker, President & CEO of the Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance. “They’d make more money,” she said. “We’re not trying to take away tips.”
More than 90% of the servers and bartenders the Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance have talked don’t support raising the minimum wage, Barker said. “They’re very concerned about what this would do to them because it defies logic that if all these wages that the restaurants have to pay go up so significantly, the restaurants have to bear that and that has to get passed on to consumers,” he said.
Food costs have gone up by 25% in the past couple of years while the restaurant industry continues to recover from the pandemic, Barker said. If this passed, restaurant operators could cut their workforce and reduce employee benefits, according to Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance. Ohioans passed a citizen initiated constitutional amendment in 2006 that raised the state minimum wage to $6.85 per hour. It has raised the minimum wage each year after that based on the consumer price index.
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