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"Tip penalty" legislation tabled—for now

In a highly charged meeting of the state Senate Business, Industry and Jobs Committee Friday (March 27), lawmakers tabled legislation that would allow employers to pay tipped employees below the minimum wage, but indicated it may not be dead in the 2009 session.

Under pressure from the labor movement, Senator Kathy Saltzman, DFL-Woodbury, moved to table her proposal that would deny tipped workeMORE »

OPINION | Where have you gone, Floyd B.?

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

As I walked past the portrait of Floyd B. Olson in the Capitol Friday (March 27), I could swear I saw the state’s first Farmer-Labor governor cover his face with his hands.
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