Sentences with phrase «restaurant workers»

An estimated 40 percent of restaurant workers nationwide live in poverty, and more than half of fast - food workers rely on government assistance to make ends meet.

The hope is that if restaurant workers rely less on tips they will be less likely to have to put with misconduct by a customer.

If these people «work for her» in a restaurant doing anything like what restaurant workers normally do, they are almost certainly employees.

Typical activities of a Wine Consultant are assisting restaurant workers, making wine suggestions for customer orders, interacting with customers, encouraging people to try new varieties, and holding seminars and classes.

One subset of restaurant workers is drawn to the allure of making really big tips.

If Napoleon had a secret admirer, she'd probably be a lot like Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy fast food restaurant worker who'd like nothing more than to meet someone who loves her.

The Midtown lawyer caught yelling racist comments at Spanish - speaking restaurant workers in a viral video was treated like a pariah by fellow attorneys at a Queens court, lawyers there told The NY Post.

does having a job in a movement based position such as restaurant worker make one an athlete if they are lean - ish and do not eat bad foods?

They were seen being politely, but firmly, guided out of the door by restaurant workers around 8 p.m.»

Advocates for a higher minimum wage scored another victory on Wednesday when New York State voted to raise the wages of fast food restaurant workers to $ 15 an hour.

NEW YORK (AP)- A momentary rant could have long - term impact on a man caught on video threatening to call immigration enforcement on restaurant workers because hearing them speaking Spanish angered him.

Wael Al - Delaimy, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his colleagues analyzed how much environmental smoke people absorb by measuring nicotine levels in the hair of 114 bar and restaurant workers in New Zealand.

Sen. Jack Martins, a Long Island Republican who received nearly $ 38,000 from the catering industry, is pushing a bill to squash lawsuits from restaurant workers who claim they were cheated out of millions in tips.

Immigrant restaurant workers across the country didn't work on Thursday.

Hidinger's wife, Jen, runs the restaurant with them, as well as the Giving Kitchen, a charity for crisis - stricken restaurant workers to which Staplehouse donates all its profits.

We duck into a dive called the Erin Rose, a spot popular with restaurant workers getting off their shifts, passing through the smoke - filled front bar to a back room.

A dozen high - powered Hollywood actors have jumped up to help New York's restaurant workers get a pay raise, but instead of gratitude the workers sent an open letter telling the A-listers to stay out of their business.

The large group of A-listers, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman and more, signed onto a letter sent to New York's Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo demanding that he sign a bill to raise the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers, the New York Post reported.

A Smithtown restaurant worker mistakenly shot by a Suffolk police officer looking for robbery suspects in 2010 will receive $ 1.5 million in a settlement approved by the county legislature.

A Smithtown restaurant worker mistakenly shot by a Suffolk police officer looking for robbery suspects in 2010 will receive $ 1.5 million in a settlement approved Tuesday by the county legislature.

2018-04-07 16:53 A teenage restaurant worker left a man he met on a dating website covered in blood after trying to murder him in his own home.

A teenage restaurant worker left a man he met on a dating website covered in blood after trying to murder him in his own home.

«The current broken two - tiered wage structure in New York puts women restaurant workers at the mercy of their customers and co-workers,» said Saru Jayaraman, President and Co-Founder of ROC United, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door: The People Who Make and Serve Your Food.

He has the backing of Unite Here Local 100, a food service and restaurant workers union, and of the Muslim Democratic Club, a New York City - based organization «dedicated to helping to elect responsible Democrats to local office.»

'' Widespread» workplace abuse persists for Chinese restaurant workers» / Sara Mojtehedzadeh & Nicholas Keung (Toronto Star, Apr. 25, 2016) and Editorial

One University of California, Berkeley study that focused on restaurant workers found that wages rose 1 % for every 10 % increase in the minimum wage.

Daisy Chung, executive director for Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, a nonprofit that supports restaurant workers, told ABC News they're totally behind the idea.

That month, more than 50 undocumented restaurant workers were detained in federal raids in Mississippi, according to one of the region's newspapers, the Clarion - Ledger.

There is a 58 percent figure mentioned, but it has to do with the racial makeup of restaurant workers affected: 58 percent of workers below the poverty line, according to the report, are people of color.

«High - end Hollywood actors and back - of - the - house restaurant workers have more in common than most people recognize,» says Saket Soni, executive director of the National Guestworker Alliance, which recently launched a project called the Indy Worker Guild to push for economic security for temps, part - timers, and those in gig jobs.

But replacing workers is also expensive: It costs about $ 2,000 to replace the average hourly restaurant worker, according to data from TDn2K.

Translation: Salaried restaurant workers who thought they were going to receive extra compensation for long work weeks probably won't see that extra income this holiday season, or possibly anytime in the immediate future.

With the leftover money, Hidi's boss at Muss & Turner's, Ryan Turner (yes, another Ryan), suggested starting a nonprofit to help other restaurant workers facing unanticipated hardships.

In 2014, before she started popping up on your Instagram feed in fly Ivy Park athleisure and targeted Kotex ads, Stanley was a hostess at a tapas restaurant in downtown Durham, NC and taught yoga classes for restaurant workers looking to relieve their over-worked bodies.

The Paid Family Leave law spearheaded by Cuomo will start to make things a little easier on new parents — but it's still not enough, especially for lower - and middle - income restaurant workers.

A momentary rant could have long - term impact on a man caught on video threatening to call immigration enforcement on restaurant workers after he became irate over hearing them speaking Spanish.

After Cortlandt Manor restaurant worker revealed to have Hepatitis A, county offering free vaccines in White Plains

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein to announce two precautionary public health clinics being held by the Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH») in response to the recent identification of the hepatitis A virus in a local restaurant worker, a server at Casa di Pizza on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo.

The Restaurant Opportunities Center United points out that tipped restaurant workers suffer from three times the poverty rate of the general population.

Service employees such as bank tellers and restaurant workers ripped information from residents and tourists, stealing the identity of thousands.

Talks between restaurateur Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boat House, and the union representing restaurant workers broke down.

Many restaurant workers who attended a hearing in Syracuse said they are against the plan.

A natural companion piece to the director's 2011 immigrant tale, «Le Havre,» «The Other Side of Hope» follows a young Syrian refugee (Sherwan Haji) who finds himself in Helsinki, where he falls in with a group of Finnish restaurant workers whose misadventures have the relaxed, we're - all - in - this - together vibe of a Howard Hawks western.

December 5, 2013 • Thousands of restaurant workers protested Thursday in cities around the country, calling for an increase in wages to $ 15 an hour.

Having painted space shuttles, the seascapes of Maine, and Christmastime symbols for U.S. stamps, Dean knows that art can permanently change us — which is why a Brooklyn restaurant worker proudly wears his fond memories of the Torpedo Factory for all to see.

Thus, citizen smokers» rights groups and organizations of bartenders or restaurant workers working against smoking bans are sometimes characterized as front groups for the tobacco industry, but it is possible that some of these groups are self - initiated (although the tobacco industry has been known to use restaurant groups as fronts for its own interests).

Two weeks ago, I posted about a fee award of nearly $ 1 million to Skadden for work performed pro bono on behalf of a group of restaurant workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act to recover tips unlawfully withheld by their employer.