The State - News from March 27, 1988

Lawyers for workers affected by California’s proposed new sub-minimum wage say the new category is a subterfuge to let employers pay tipped workers less. They are seeking a court ruling to block it. The proposed wage would pay waiters, waitresses and other tipped employees $3.50 an hour, or 75 cents less than the minimum pay for other workers. A restaurant industry spokesman said that tipped workers already are making more than the minimum wage. The suit, in the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, seeks a court order invalidating the $3.50 wage and applying the new $4.25 rate to all minimum-wage workers on July 1.