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Globe Investigates Fast Food Franchise Owners’s Difficulties Post $20 Minimum Wage Law

August 23, 2024 2:45 amAugust 23, 2024 2:46 am

The fast food minimum wage battle has raged on in California all year. To give a quick recap: Following the signing of AB 1228 in October 2023 by Governor Gavin Newsom, the new $20 minimum wage for fast food employees, a...

SEIU Fast Food Labor Union Sends Demands Another Minimum Wage Increase

August 1, 2024 4:10 pmAugust 1, 2024 4:10 pm

The California Fast Food Workers Union, a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate, announced on Thursday that they already want a raise for fast food workers in California at the end of the year, proposing a raise from the new...

Rubio’s Coastal Grill Becomes Latest Victim Of CA $20 Minimum Wage Law

June 5, 2024 2:45 amJune 5, 2024 2:46 am

Rubio’s Coastal Grill, a Carlsbad-based Mexican food restaurant chain with over 200 stores nationwide, announced that 48 stores in California would close over the weekend because of a large number of rising costs, including employee wages. Following the signing of AB...

California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Law Goes Into Effect

April 1, 2024 12:12 pmApril 1, 2024 12:18 pm

California’s AB 1228 $20 fast food minimum wage law went into effect on Monday, raising the wages of fast food workers state-wide amidst fast food restaurant owners firing workers, cutting back hours, and raising prices in order to stay in...

Fast Food Restaurant Owners Brace As $20 Minimum Wage Law set To Go Into Effect Next Week

March 25, 2024 11:56 amMarch 26, 2024 11:58 am

With only a week to go before the AB 1228 $20 fast food minimum wage law comes into effect, restaurants across California continue to make last minute firings, employee hours cuts, and other measures to remain profitable and stay in...

Newsom Donor Greg Flynn Agrees to Pay $20 Minimum Wage Amid ‘PaneraGate’ Scandal

March 7, 2024 1:48 pmMarch 7, 2024 1:50 pm

Panera Bread franchisee and Newsom donor Greg Flynn announced on Wednesday that he would be complying with the AB 1228 $20 per hour wage law for fast food companies when it begins next month following over a week of backlash...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Fast Food Council: How to Kill Another Industry

March 6, 2024 8:13 amMarch 7, 2024 6:28 am

With California Governor Gavin Newsom mired in “PaneraGate,” after he exempted a billionaire buddy from California’s new $20 minimum wage law, people are asking about this new Fast Food Council the Governor just announced. Newsom’s friend, Billionaire Greg Flynn owns...