Gators persuade contractors to offer employees higher minimum-wage rate

Nation's Restaurant News, Nov 20, 2006

Gainsville, Fla. -- The University of Florida here reportedly has persuaded its foodservice contractor, Philadelphia-based Aramark Corp., as well as other vendors at the school to pay their full-time workers $8.84 an hour, a wage proportionate with the college's own minimum pay.

The university instituted its own minimum wage in 2001. It now exceeds the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour by $3.69.

Beginning in January, Florida's minimum wage will become $6.67 an hour.

Aramark employs more than 630 people on the University of Florida campus, 60 percent of whom are students. About 100 of the employees are full-time, hourly workers.

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