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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:38PM (#24640635)
If you want to debate semantics, that’s one thing, but arbitrarily excluding wages from someone’s earnings to make a point is still disingenuous.

The US DOL has a very clear definition of what constitutes a tipped worker and the association compensation requirements: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips

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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:58PM (#24640890)
> but arbitrarily excluding wages from someone’s earnings

No one's excluding wages from earnings, or tips from earnings; what is excluded is tips from wages, just as is done when setting a separate tipped minimum wage (that only is a minimum for wages, not wages plus tips), like the federal $2.13 and many state wage and hour laws for tipped employees, or when setting a minimum wage and not counting tips against it (as is the case in a number of US states and territories, including Washington, California, and others.)

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