Tag: $20 minimum wage fast food workers
California’s $20 Wage Law Cost Restaurant Workers 7 Weeks Worth of Work
The Employment Policies Institute just released new data showing AB 1228, California’s $20 wage law for fast food workers, cost non-tipped restaurant workers 250 hours of work annually, equating to up to 7 weeks of lost work – up to...
AB 1228 One Year Later: How The $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Has Hurt California
Assembly Bill 1228, the extremely controversial law that raised the fast food minimum wage to $20 an hour in California, turned one year old on Tuesday. And the differences between now and a year have been shown to be pretty...
Fast Food Council Approves Motion To Possibly Raise State Fast Food Minimum Wage By Another 70 Cents
The California Fast Food Council approved a motion to consider raising the minimum wage for fast food workers by another 70 cents per hour on Wednesday, with a vote on the matter expected at their next meeting in either April...
California Minimum Wage Madness
“Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Economist Thomas Sowell explained in 2013. “As for being ‘compassionate’ toward ‘the poor,’ this assumes that there is some enduring class of...
‘Jobs are Down and Workers are Suffering’ While Gov. Newsom Touts Job Increases
Well, it was only a matter of time. The Globe heard from the Governor’s Deputy Director for Rapid Response, Brandon Richards (He/Him), telling us we need to retract our articles on fast food job losses following Gov. Gavin Newsom signing...
Gov. Newsom Exposed for Gaslighting on California’s Fast Food Industry Job Loss
Since the passage of AB 1228 in September 2023, California’s privately-owned fast food restaurants have lost -6,166 jobs. Over the same period the previous year, prior to passage of AB 1228 (September 2022 through June 2023), California gained 17,528 private...