June 09, 2022 - Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Jennifer Berrier continued her statewide push for legislative action to raise Pennsylvania's appallingly low minimum wage during a visit to Philadelphia's Night Kitchen Bakery & Cafe, a business that supports Governor Tom Wolf's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour with a pathway to $15 by 2028."We are in the City of Brotherly Love, but love is unfortunately the last thing we have been showing the thousands of workers still earning the pitiful minimum wage in Pennsylvania of just $7.25 an hour," said Secretary Berrier. "At Night Kitchen, we are about 11 miles, about a 20-minute drive, from the New Jersey border, where minimum wage workers earn $13 an hour - that is 79 percent more per hour than a comparable worker in Pennsylvania. How is that fair? We are allowing poverty-level pay in exchange for an honest day's work from some of the most vulnerable people in our labor force. The Wolf Administration supports a plan that ends the legal exploitation of hourly workers and also eliminates the tipped worker minimum wage of $2.83 an hour. We believe one fair minimum wage for all workers helps tipped workers two-thirds of whom are women."Speakers Include:Secretary Jennifer BerrierAmy Edelman, owner of Night Kitchen Bakery
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