Some workers have seen their wages increase thanks to a ballot initiative D.C. voters passed last year. Still, they worry about full implementation if it means people stop tipping.

Several employees walked out during a lunch rush after the owners declined to voluntarily recognize their union.

Career coaches will provide D.C. residents with career assessments and referrals to training, education, and job opportunities.

Only three years ago anti-poverty group Oxfam ranked Virginia the country’s worst state for workers, but this year it jumped to 23rd.

Under Virginia’s new standards, businesses will have to train their employees in safety, provide them with safety gear, and notify them if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace.

“You’re constantly second-guessing what is the best approach,” says one D.C. restaurateur.

“You have to speak to be heard,” one of the employees said.

A report by Project: Time Off shows that 64 percent of D.C. workers collectively have more than 17 million paid days from work.

Plus, experts’ estimates of the bill’s cost range by hundreds of millions of dollars.

To avoid the mad Black Friday rush (or perhaps extend it), some large retailers have come up with a brilliant solution: just open at midnight on Thanksgiving Thursday and let people start shopping then!