Across the United States, legal protections for employees in or around the restaurant industry continue to be debated, voted on, and put into practice: from California’s FAST Recovery Act passed in September — which could raise the statewide minimum wage to $22 an hour and be adopted by other states — to the current proposed subminimum wage abolishment on the ballot in Washington, D.C. and Portland, Maine.

First, here is a breakdown of all of the worker protection proposals — many of which would directly impact the restaurant industry — that voters will be deciding on on Election Day in two weeks...