Seattle’s Wage Mandate Kills Restaurants

The legal minimum is going to $16.39 an hour, while my pay drops to zero.

By Simone Barron, Dec. 12, 2019

Click here to read the Wall Street journal Op-Ed.

This city’s minimum wage is rising to $16.39 an hour on Jan. 1. Instead of receiving a bigger paycheck, I’m left without any pay at all due to the policy change. That’s because the restaurant where I’ve worked for six years is closing as a consequence of the city’s harmful minimum-wage experiment.

Click here to read the Wall Street journal Op-Ed.