; Whereas low wages, unjust working conditions, and bans on abortion coverage like the Hyde Amendment, all interfere with someone’s ability to make their own decisions about pregnancy and whether to become a parent, and disproportionately affect women and people of color; Whereas wage theft, discrimination, and other violations of wage and hour law are extremely common in the restaurant industry, and restaurant workers are more likely to experience discrimination in restaurants, including sex discrimination, discrimination against parents, racism and racist hiring practices; Whereas the rate of sexual harassment among female restaurant workers is the highest of any industry, with female workers filing sexual harassment charges at twice the rate of the general workforce, with one survey of restaurant industry workers finding that more than 70 percent of women reported having experienced some form of sexual harassment in the workplace; Whereas, since the United States is currently the only OECD country with no national paid family leave and one of the few high-income countries without a national family caregiving or medical leave policy, the majority of restaurant workers have no guaranteed paid or unpaid leave; Whereas in a survey of COVID impacts on the restaurant industry, 42 percent of respondents said that someone at their workplace tested positive for COVID–19 and 68 percent said that the virus impacted their workplaces with them or their coworkers testing positive, and one in ten restaurant workers went to work with COVID–19 symptoms because of economic pressures; Whereas nearly 6 million restaurant workers lost their jobs in 2020, disproportionately impacting women and workers of color; and Whereas unemployment in the restaurant industry in the United States was 41.8 percent in April 2020, at the height of the pandemic, which was more than twice the rate of unemployment in the private sector overall: Now, therefore, be it