Three employees assigned to part-time work at the Baltimore Convention Center filed complaints with the Baltimore Wage Commission against their employer, Aramark Corporation of Philadelphia.

In their complaints, the first ever filed under Baltimore's nine-year-old "living wage" law, LaTonya T. Christian, Levina Mason, and one other
employee allege that Aramark paid them $7.15 per hour. The law currently requires that contractors who operate at city facilities pay
their employees at those facilities a minimum of $8.49 per hour. The complaints come in the midst of drawn out contract negotiations between Aramark and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 7. About 90 union members at the Convention Center have been working without a contract for over a month.