On this past weekend’s “Minding Your Business” on News 12+, NJBIA Vice President of Government Affairs Elissa Frank and New Jersey Restaurant and Hospitality Association CEO Daniel Klim joined Bob Considine to discuss their opposition to a controversial bill that raises the minimum wage for tipped workers in New Jersey.
“Minimum wage at the state level is $15.49. The minimum wage for tipped workers at the state level is $5.62. So this bill proposes bringing up those tipped workers to the $15.49, which would be about a 200% [increase in] labor cost,” Klim said. “And, unfortunately, it’s just not sustainable in the industry.”
“We have 20,000 restaurants, 375,000 employees; no one came to our office and said we need to change this,” Klim said.
“The system works. It’s worked for decades. And when you have both management and employment on the same page saying ‘we don’t want this,’ we really need to take a look at the bill.”
NJBIA’s “Minding Your Business” is a weekly TV show and the winner of seven Telly Awards over the past three years, including a gold 2024 Telly in the Interview & Talk Show category.
