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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“These writers are such staggering economic illiterates.”
I disagree. I think they know full well the economic effects.
And don't start a family until you can afford to do so!
$20/hr for fast food workers? To hell with that. I’ll bet Costco pizza and rotisserie chicken prices stay the same. I’d be going there more on TDYs. Pocket more M&IE because that’s going to increase to cover the increased restaurant and fast food prices.
This is the one. Or, should I say, this is one of them.
Election times are great fun!
I wish this would have come sooner,” Vilorio said through a translator.
and there it is...
The gov will be able to support those laid off by using the additional revenue realized when the retained workers move to a higher tax bracket.
Fast food chains will raise prices nationwide to pay their California employees.
Fast food worker will be the only people who can afford fast food.
Reduced and then eliminate human staff.
Person at fast food ordering kiosk putting their phone up to verify order and pay. Did not accept the new package meal deal offer. Wants to get the automated exit doors open and just leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2Aya_6Bc
Wow. What a carefully crafted piece of propaganda. The trade association was prepared to back a ballot initiative to repeal the creation of a board created just to regulate fast food workers minimum wages with which $20 would have just been the opening bid. The left is expert at crafting media campaigns to defeat ballot measures they don’t like, such as when the convinced voters a few years ago not to repeal a huge increase in the gas tax.
I hope the guy in the article enjoys his increase, assuming he isnt among the thousands who have already lost his job because of this, or will lose their job as CA is becoming a leader in automation of the industry, or because of decreases in sales when the increased expense is attempted to be passed on to consumers
When one of the minimum wage levels went into effect at the library the fiercely cheap* library head woman refused to accept the payouts.
One 18 year old student assistant was cheerily excited the day the wage was going into effect but then was given a statement that her hours would be immediately be cut down to equal the amount of money she used to make. She was crushed.
*I am convinced she was psychologically disturbed. Some term like parsimonious or miserly. At office parties, despite her quite high administrator income she brought generic brand items and carefully brought home even the condiments and other items so they wouldn’t be out of her grasp.
So $20 minimum for fast food workers.......is that now the state minimum wage or are these workers “special” ?
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Well, if the Ma and Pa Burger joints, which typically have the best Burgers, can keep their help the prices should not be effected too much. Big if though, unless Family members are running the joint and not $16 hired help looking for the $20 bonanza. I suspect those $20 job establishments won’t be hiring much in the near future, laying off is more likely.
The McDonald’s near me put ordering kiosks in. Ordering there is now a confusing mess, for me anyway. It was like programming a rocket to go to the Moon.
So no more McDonald’s for me. Which is actually a very good thing.
You also noted that.
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