The NRA wants the restaurant industry to stand alone in not having to pay its own workers -- claiming that we, the customers, pay their workers' wages for them through our tips.
The restaurants can pay tip-earning employees $5 an hour, below minimum wage, but customers pay the rest — and then some.
In return for enjoying their privileged role in vital sectors, private businesses in those and other industries should be licensed to live up to their social obligations to both staff and customers: living wages and secure conditions, fair and transparent pricing.
Prices of final goods and services were largely stable as higher input costs were not being passed along to customers and wage pressures continued to be minimal.Meanwhile, Mr Bernanke isn't bashful about acknowledging the headwinds to recovery:In the housing market, sales and construction have been temporarily boosted lately by the homebuyer tax credit.
Its cabin crew responded by voting to strike over the Christmas period, alienating the millions of customers that pay their wages and fund those pensions.
In 2012, the IRS ignored the fact that unlike other employment sectors, the restaurant industry expects customers to pay employees' wages.
With $150 a week considered a good wage, customers would not pay that much merely for the privilege of drinking.
"The B-1 workers were fully employed in this country, and Infosys was charging its customers full-time wages," he said.
Now there's the new humiliation of the "gratuity?" option on card machines, the latest ruse by which restaurants try to make customers subsidise inadequate wages.
A handful of banks and credit unions responded by promising to front their customers the lost wages, so that they wouldn't personally feel the pain; but many other banks have said they won't do so.
