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When employees work for tips, the power dynamic between service-provider and customer is fundamentally changed

Tipping proliferated in the United States after the Civil War, when the restaurant and hospitality industries hired newly emancipated Black women and

No Salary History Marks A Historic Win for Working Women in the Fight for Pay Equity in Illinois

New Law Will Lift 200,000 Low-Wage Workers Out of Poverty

Illinois legislature passes bill to steadily increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2025.

Incoming Governor Pritzker has a crucial opportunity to put Illinois on a path of progress

Let’s commit to making the gender wage gap history.