Posted on 12/28/2023 10:55:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Pizza Hut franchises across California announced that they will be laying off 1200 delivery drivers due to the new minimum wage for fast food employees, which is set to take effect in 2024.
The minimum wage hike was an initiative of Governor Gavin Newsom.
LA List noted that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1228 on Sept. 28, which boosts the average hourly wage for more than 500,000 California fast food workers in April 2024.
“That’s a romanticized version of a world that doesn’t exist,” Newsom said at the bill-signing event, according to the Associated Press.
“We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice, and stabilize an industry.”
Now, Pizza Hut operators have filed notices saying they were discontinuing their delivery services to comply with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN).
According to a WARN Act notice filed by PacPizza LLC with the state’s Employment Development Department, Pizza Hut said:
“We have made a business decision to eliminate first-party delivery services and, as a result, the elimination of all delivery driver positions.”
Meanwhile, Southern California Pizza Co. announced that 841 drivers at locations in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura counties will be laid off.
“Well, I knew that was coming. All these big corporations they have to make money,” said Scot Ward, owner of Stone Pizza in Roseville.
CBS News reported that fast food workers who advocated for the minimum raise increase said it was desperately needed, saying they were not making a livable wage.
“This new law that’s coming in, I feel like it will have everybody equal, you know?” said Maria Hernandez, a manager for another local fast food chain in Folsom, and a fast food union member.
“I was working long hours and making basically no money. With these extra five dollars, it’s a great deal,” said Hernandez.
Last year, McDonald’s announced it was testing automation technology to replace its workforce and make many of its employees redundant.
As The Daily Fetched reported:
The fast food restaurant announced that customers could use kiosks and a mobile app to get food from a conveyor belt instead of speaking with a staff member.
The new concept is designed to give the restaurant team “the ability to concentrate more on order speed and accuracy, which makes the experience more enjoyable for everyone,” Keith Vanecek, the restaurant’s franchisee, said.
Meanwhile, critics said the restaurant concept came following left-wing politician’s call for a minimum wage hike.
“We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice, and stabilize an industry.”
'Dead' is stable.................
I would bet that a lot of those drivers were all for the increase too.
Liberals never consider that the real minimum wage is $0. But then again, they don’t seem to care.
Another liberal Success Story.
Brought to you by well-off elites who feel really good about themselves.
Kris Krispy mourns...
Politicians learn nothing...ever. There’s not an economist on Earth who can’t truthfully say: “I told you so!” Minmimum wage increases are supposed to help the inexperienced, young, often minority worker, get a higher income. However, employers faced with higher wages, look to fire the least experienced, least productive, workers in an effort to cut costs. This is often the inexperienced, young, often minority worker. Funny how politicians will still maintain that those 2000, now unemployed, workers are better off. The stupidity never stops...
The pizza delivery industry will adapt to the new market conditions, as will the price for a pizza.
Yep, soon to break the $30 barrier for a medium pizza.
its called pricing yourself out of the market
oh to be an order kiosk salesman
It is incumbent upon you to do you own due diligence.
To save time, I went to my https://poe.com/ page
At $20 per hour wage, how much is a worker paid per minute?
First, let’s determine the amount earned in an hour:
$20 per hour
To find the amount earned per minute, we divide the hourly wage by 60:
$20 / 60 minutes = $0.3333 per minute (rounded to four decimal places)
Therefore, at a wage of $20 per hour, a worker would be paid approximately $0.3333 per minute.
McDonald’s announced it was testing automation technology to replace its workforce...
Delivery kid: “Geez, just before I got laid off I was feeling so rich. Now I’m back to being a loser.”
What’s the real cost to an employer for $20/ hr?
RE: union workers replaced by machines....
When millions of American auto workers were losing their jobs to automation and robot devices they picked up on the phrase:
“If all of us lose our jobs maybe the companies can have robots drive the cars the robots assembled.”
Now the EV cars ARE sometimes partly or fully self-driving. With plans for all self-driving when they can get the road interface technology perfected.
What a great way to get rid of dead weight and save tons of money it takes in CA cover workers compensation for hundreds of people.
Replace them with non-employee contractors that the company will not be required their workers comp. Save on payroll and workers comp!!
Get rid of your employees and replace them with independent contractors...No payroll expenses, no sky high expensive workers comp!
Make your own. It’s easy.
About $25 to $28 in CA.
Had smoked Jimmy Dean sausage for Christmas dinner.
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