A new report finds up to 90 percent of women working restaurant jobs
that depend on tips have experienced workplace sexual harassment. More
than 70 percent of tipped workers are women, and female restaurant
workers are especially vulnerable to harassment in states where tipped
workers earn a federal minimum wage of $2.13 per hour. Today, just seven
states require employers pay a regular minimum wage before tips. We
speak with Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder of Restaurant
Opportunities Center United, which has released a new report, "The Glass
Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry." Jayaraman is
director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California,
Berkeley, and is the author of "Behind the Kitchen Door." We also speak
with restaurant worker, Ashley Ogogor, and with former waitress, Eve
Ensler, the award-winning playwright and author of The Vagina
Monologues. She helped create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence
against women and girls, and the One Billion Rising campaign, which is
now in its third year.
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