Liberals love the idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour just as much as they support pot legalization, but when the two are mixed together, some things get lost in the fray.
The Stranger reported that Seattle’s most successful cannabis retailer, Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop, forgot to pay their employees the new minimum wage.
Seattle’s current minimum wage for tipped employees is $10.50 an hour, but one of the pot shop’s staff members, Nicole Stotts, noticed she was only being paid $10 an hour.
Stotts confronted Lia Yagelowich, who handles the payroll for Uncle Ike’s, about the situation and was told that the store was deducting her tips from her total salary, allowing them to underpay her.
The employee filed a complaint with the Office of Labor Standards, which found Uncle Ike’s guilty of ignoring the new minimum wage laws.
Uncle Ike’s later admitted that they had in fact underpaid their staff and said it was due to misinformation about the new minimum wage laws given to them by their human resources firm, which operates out of Spokane.
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