Two dollars and thirteen cents an hour: that’s the state’s minimum wage for tipped workers. Employers in most rich nations around the world would be committing a crime if they tried to pay their workers $2.13 an hour — or even Georgia’s state minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Some Georgia businesses are exempt from… [Read More]
DeKalb bus drivers strike for better pay, get fired immediately
Perhaps inspired by the success of the school worker strikes in Oklahoma, West Virginia and South Carolina, 393 of Dekalb County’s 908 school bus drivers, called out sick on Thursday as a way to fight for improvements in salaries and benefits. Many continued calling out for the entire “sick out” from Thursday through Monday. Bus drivers… [Read More]