A new program aims to raise restaurant wages in West Virginia. The High Roads Kitchen program plans to distribute $7,000 each to seven West Virginia restaurants that commit to increasing wages for tipped workers to the state’s full minimum wage of $8.75. The national organization One Fair Wage is funding the bonuses for the chosen restaurants. In West Virginia, employers can pay tipped workers a rate $2.62 per hour or the federal rate of $2.13, if the employer has fewer than six employees. To be eligible for the funding, restaurants also need to commit to preparing and distributing at least 500 free meals around town and completing a digital race and gender equity training course within nine months.
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