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When employees work for tips, the power dynamic between service-provider and customer is fundamentally changed
A proposed rule would upend the longstanding legal standard of disparate impact.
Tipping proliferated in the United States after the Civil War, when the restaurant and hospitality industries hired newly emancipated Black women and
The Shriver Center on Poverty Law unreservedly condemns this inhumane and cruel rule.
Legislators unanimously pass law after hearing from justice-involved individuals, community members, and advocates from the Shriver Center.
Legislation Will Expand Access to Care and Prevent Lapses in Coverage
No Salary History Marks A Historic Win for Working Women in the Fight for Pay Equity in Illinois
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