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Labor activists speak out against proposed state legislation that could slash servers' pay listen

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Tags: Tips, Gratuity, service, wages, minimum wage, 2012 Legislative session

A proposed state bill would cut tipped workers’ wages by more than half; from $4.65 per hour to $2.13. On Friday afternoon, members of local labor groups protested the legislation at the Outback Steakhouse in Temple Terrace. One of them, Bailey Riley, works as a server at a different chain restaurant in the Tampa Bay area. She said if signed into law, the proposal would pad corpo...