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“The Department has tentatively concluded that subminimum wages are no longer necessary to prevent the curtailment of employment opportunities.”

Currently, only seven states have eliminated the subminimum wage for tipped employees: Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

State Sen. Noel Frame first met ObeySumner when ObeySumner was working as an activist, trying to end the paying of subminimum wages to people with disabilities.

SB 62 aims to overhaul the pay model for garment workers, now largely paid subminimum wages, and introduce more accountability into the fashion supply chain.

Give me tens of billions of dollars and a $120 billion valuation and someday, somehow, I will replace every taxi driver with gig workers paid subminimum wages—or robot taxis paid no wages—while charging exorbitant fares for rides, increasing pollution, and adding to traffic.