Massachusetts' highest court has tossed out a challenge to a proposed ballot question that would raise the minimum wage businesses must pay to workers who rely…
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that the state attorney general had properly certified that the question should be eligible to go before voters in the November electionMassachusetts' highest court has tossed out a challenge to a proposed ballot question that would raise the minimum wage businesses must pay to workers who rely on tips and permit tip pooling among both tipped and nontipped employees.
The Massachusetts Restaurant Association and others have opposed the question, arguing in part that under the state constitution initiative petitions must contain only related or mutually dependent subjects. Opponents argued that increasing what employers must pay tipped workers while also allowing businesses to divide those tips between their full staff were too unrelated to include in a single question.
A separate part of the state law limits the distribution of customer tips to only “wait staff employees,” “service employees,” and “service bartenders” and prohibits the pooling and distribution of tips to other employees.
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