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California Employees Arrive At Restaurant Only To Discover Closure Due To Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wage
State of the Union ^ | 4/21 | Evelyn Thomas

Posted on 04/21/2024 5:09:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In California, a Foster’s Freeze location closed and laid off its workers due to a new $20 per hour minimum wage that took effect April 1st.

The wage increase was mandated by Governor Gavin Newsom under a law raising the fast food minimum wage by 25% to $20 an hour.

The assistant manager said the owner could no longer afford the higher salaries.

Some employees initially thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Prior reports indicated many California restaurants had already begun layoffs anticipating the wage hike.

While economists debate the impacts of minimum wage increases, the restaurant industry is often hardest hit due to tight profit margins.

California currently has the highest unemployment rate in the US at 5.3% as of February, indicating the minimum wage law has led to job losses.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; gavinnewson; minimumwage; minimuwage; restaurants
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To: nickcarraway
"...California currently has the highest unemployment rate in the US at 5.3%..."

I presume that is a government supplied statistic.

21 posted on 04/21/2024 7:37:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Reno89519

Is this the guy what told them they’d see it thru and then once they were safely out locked the doors? Because that could be interpreted as respecting what they might actually do otherwise.


22 posted on 04/21/2024 7:37:28 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Bikkuri

I recall that I was getting paid $2.50 an hour at my part time job while in High School before I went into the Navy in 1975.

I have a pay stub as an E-3 from 1977, I think...something like $5,500 a year...I think. Of course, I didn’t work an eight hour day when deployed, we worked 12 on-12 off while at sea.

So I guess, half the time in a year while deployed I was making $1.60 an hour, and the rest of the time when I ashore, I was making $2.85 an hour...:)


23 posted on 04/21/2024 7:55:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a Cal only chain with 65 locations. Make that 64 now.


24 posted on 04/21/2024 8:05:40 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: frank ballenger

I thought it was Joe Biden commenting on his uncle’s demise.


25 posted on 04/22/2024 1:57:45 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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To: Bikkuri

Got it. So that was only about $11 today.


26 posted on 04/22/2024 12:57:33 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: frank ballenger

Years ago, a couple liberal DJs in Omaha were talking about a property tax increase & how it was good to be able to stick it to the landlords. A caller told them that the tax increase would be passed onto the tenants in the form of rental increases and the DJs were beside themselves that this would be allowed. Both are “college” graduates and they thought an increase would only impact the landlord. Idiots.


27 posted on 04/23/2024 5:58:11 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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