By Adam Pagnucco. When Council Member Will Jawando withdrew his bill to repeal the tipped minimum wage in January, he threw his support behind efforts to pass it at the…
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By Adam Pagnucco. A new bill by Council Member Will Jawando would mandate the provision of menstrual products in most public restrooms in the county. The bill is known as…
By Adam Pagnucco. The county council’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) has submitted its economic impact statement on Council Member Will Jawando’s bill to repeal the county’s tip credit for…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, Council Member Will Jawando has introduced a bill to eliminate the tip credit for Montgomery County’s minimum wage. The bill comes despite…
By Adam Pagnucco. As the county council begins its debate about whether to scrap the tip credit for minimum wage, here are four facts about restaurants that must be part…
Tip Credit Repeal Bill Coming to MoCo
By Adam Pagnucco. One of the hottest recent issues in D.C. politics has been an effort to eliminate the tip credit for minimum wage. That has played out over multiple…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. During the pandemic, Montgomery County’s restaurant industry took bigger hits on employment, wages paid and net losses in number of restaurants than most other large jurisdictions in…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. The pandemic’s effect on the restaurant industry played out in two years for which we have data: 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the first year of the…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. In 2020 – possibly the worst year for U.S. restaurants since the Great Depression – Montgomery County restaurants lost employees and wages paid at about the same…
MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Some in Montgomery County’s restaurant industry have claimed that the county’s COVID restrictions were unnecessarily harsh and inflicted more economic damage than restrictions in other parts of…