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MASSACHUSETTS It s Tuesday, May 4. Here s what you should know this afternoon:
Restaurants in the Bay State saw a 21 percent decline in revenue for the first quarter ended March 31 when compared to the three months ended Dec. 31.
Salem Hospital had to retract Monday s report that the hospital had no COVID-19 patients for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The hospital was, in fact, treating eight COVID-19 patients when it made its initial announcement.
The weather is not looking like it will cooperate for tonight s peak of the Eta Aquariid meteor shower, which is the last meteor shower we will see in Massachusetts until July.
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As a new proposal to eliminate the tipped minimum wage in Massachusetts moves through the legislature, the progressive labor advocacy group One Fair Wage has just released a white paper criticizing the alleged role of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association in blocking the passage of laws that would raise worker wages in the state.
The paper claims that the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, an affiliate of the National Restaurant Association, has been a principal opponent of new workers’ rights legislation in the state over the course of the past two and a half years, with roughly a quarter of its lobbying efforts going toward opposing legislation that would eliminate subminimum wages and allow workers to take emergency paid sick leave in the state. The paper also alleges that Massachusetts Restaurant Association-affiliated lobbyists “attempted to influence key legislation through campaign contributions.” (Campaign donations in Massachusett
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