Chicago’s City Council Introduces Proposed Legislation Eliminating the Tip Credit and Expanding Paid Time Off for Chicago Employees

On Wednesday July 19, 2023, the Chicago City Council introduced legislation to eliminate the city’s “tip credit” over a two-year period (if passed), in an effort to raise the city’s current hourly minimum wage rate for tipped employees to equal the city’s hourly minimum wage rate for non-tipped employees.