{"id":267,"date":"2008-12-28T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-12-28T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T18:22:59","slug":"wolfgang-puck-resolves-to-eliminate-minimum-wage-for-waiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2008\/12\/wolfgang-puck-resolves-to-eliminate-minimum-wage-for-waiters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Puck Resolves to Eliminate Minimum Wage for Waiters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">According to a recent article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123033735965236411.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck would like to eliminate the minimum wage for waiters. In a story on resolutions for 2009, Puck was asked, \u201cWhat problem should your industry or professional community tackle more effectively?\u201d Puck responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0.3in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The industry should lobby to establish a federal law that allows restaurants nationwide to exempt waiters who earn tips from the minimum wage. Waiters would not lose money because they could work overtime, and we could use the savings to provide health care or raise the wages of dishwashers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Currently, tipped employees must be paid a minimum wage of $2.63 per hour in cash wages and with tips must earn at least $6.55 per hour. State laws may provide rules that are more beneficial to the employee and must be followed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck would like to eliminate the minimum wage for waiters. In a story on resolutions for 2009, Puck was asked, \u201cWhat problem should your industry or professional community tackle more effectively?\u201d Puck responded: The industry should lobby to establish a federal law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[243,76,635,672,671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}