Posted on 03/31/2024 1:16:57 PM PDT by Salman
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already known for its high cost of living.
Democrats in the state Legislature passed the law last year in part as an acknowledgement that many of the more than 500,000 people who work in fast food restaurants are not teenagers earning some spending money, but adults working to support their families.
That includes immigrants like Ingrid Vilorio, who said she started working at a McDonald's shortly after arriving in the United States in 2019. Fast food was her full-time job until last year. Now, she works about eight hours per week at a Jack in the Box while working other jobs.
“The $20 raise is great. I wish this would have come sooner,” Vilorio said through a translator. “Because I would not have been looking for so many other jobs in different places.”
The law was supported by the trade association representing fast food franchise owners. But since it passed, many franchise owners have bemoaned the impact the law is having on them, especially during California's slowing economy.
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Those $30 Big Macs are going to taste fantastic!
Profession?!
pink slips
Right? The shut down fast food restaurants would be a blessing!
It just shows how fast government is destroying the US currency and how fast inflation is growing
I don’t really feel the need or desire to eat unhealthy garbage fast food all that often, frankly.
Alex Johnson owns 10 Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. He said sales have slowed in 2024, prompting him to lay off his office staff and rely on his parents to help with payroll and human resources.
Increasing his employees' wages will cost Johnson about $470,000 each year. He will have to raise prices anywhere from 5% to 15% at his stores, and is no longer hiring or seeking to open new locations in California, he said.
“I try to do right by my employees. I pay them as much as I can. But this law is really hitting our operations hard,” Johnson said.
“I have to consider selling and even closing my business,” he said. “The profit margin has become too slim when you factor in all the other expenses that are also going up.”
This sure is a surprising and unforeseen circumstance.
It will force McDonald’s to limit the hours in their dining rooms. Maybe from 6 am to 4 pm. After that, drive thru only.
Is this the law that big donors in California were exempted from, or was that some other law?
“The $20 raise is great. I wish this would have come sooner,” Vilorio said through a translator.”
Guess she’s not working the cash register
I understand some McDonald’s have already moved to a drive-through-only standard.
A bunch of panera Bread restaurants are exempt because the owner is Newsomes buddy.
“…more financial security to an historically low-paying profession”
The thousands of laid off workers may disagree about “financial security.”
These writers are such staggering economic illiterates. They only write what the politicians tell them to write.
If you want out of a low-income, dead-end job meant for high school kids, then learn a trade, develop some skills, get a practical education, etc.
In other news, a Big Mac is now 19.99.
I bet some of them are working on a renovation where you can go in, pick up your order. Then leave. No seats or anything like that.
Wait until the state forces them to have an open dining section ...
Which is why minimum wage is actually $0. They can’t make money if they don’t have an employer.
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