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Workforce

Pa. establishes new overtime rules

Foodservice managers would need to earn 28% more than the new federal threshold to be ineligible for time-and-a-half pay.

Operations

Calif. acts to ease food insecurity in community colleges

Students in 10 counties could use their assistance credits at local restaurants.

Operations

Calif. bans alternative meals for kids with lunchroom debts

The measure is aimed at ending lunch shaming.

People

Foodservice Packaging Institute appoints a new president

Natha Dempsey will move up from the vice president role.

Operations

Restaurant chefs try their hand at school lunches

A dozen well-known chefs agreed to create and menu a dish with a food cost of $1.25, just as their K-12 counterparts do. Here’s why.

Operations

Aramark brings back John Zillmer as CEO

The appointment comes as a major shareholder in the foodservice giant is exerting more of an influence on its strategy and direction.

Operations

Millennials pining for off-premise? Not as much as boomers

The older generation has the strongest pent-up demand for delivery and takeout, a new study indicates.

Workforce

Department of Labor issues new overtime pay rules

As anticipated, the agency has raised the exemption threshold to $35,568.

People

Longtime Foodservice Packaging Institute leader Lynn Dyer to step down this fall

Dyer is leaving the association of packaging manufacturers to become vice president of sustainability for one of its members.

Workforce

U.S. House of Representatives approves a $15 minimum wage

The Raise the Wage Act, approved in the Democratic-controlled House on party lines, now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate.

Workforce

Foodservice industry nabs funding for developing an alternative labor pool

A federal grant of $4.5 million will be used by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation to prepare current and former prison inmates for restaurant jobs.

Workforce

Warnings about $15 minimum wage's effect on employment have merit, government study finds

The so-called living wage would kill about 1.3 million jobs, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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