Federal lawsuit challenges Seattle's $15 minimum wage  Minimum
Wage Seattle Waiter Spencer Meline serves a customer at Ivar's
Acres of Clams restaurant on the Seattle waterfront Wednesday,
May 14, 2014. While the Seattle mayor is proposing to raise the
minimum wage to $15 in the coming years to the highest level in
the nation, businesses are sounding the alarm that raising the
wage too quickly could hurt their revenue and force them to
either hire fewer workers or let go more of their employees,
while popular restaurateurs have emphatically argued for
counting tips in total compensation. (AP Photo) The Associated
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5:07 PM  SEATTLE -- A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges
Seattle's adoption of what would be the nation's highest minimum
wage as unfair to small franchises.   In a lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court in Seattle, the International Franchise
Association, a Washington, D.C