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Austin’s Bold Move for Restaurant Workers | Texas News
Austin is launching a bold new pilot program to help local restaurants thrive while uplifting their workers—by offering financial incentives to businesses that adopt “high-road” employment practices like paying a living wage of $22/hour and providing healthcare and paid time off. Designed by the Austin-Travis County Food Policy Board, this initiative tackles the harsh realities of low pay, unstable hours, and lack of benefits faced by food service workers—without crushing small businesses already operating on razor-thin margins. Inspired by Austin’s existing food plan and modeled after the…
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