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Almost all employees in California must be paid the state or local minimum wage for all hours worked. See Minimum Wage. There are some exemptions to the minimum wage, but those exemptions are not the same as under federal law. See Exemptions. Employers must be particularly careful to avoid ...
Beginning January 1, 2024, the statewide minimum wage in California will increase to $16.00/hour, but some cities within the state may require higher wages. Many CA city minimum wages are determined by the cost of living and are much higher than federal or state minimums. Some cities in Ca...
California's minimum wage for most workers in the state is $16 an hour. Voters will decide in November whether to increase that gradually to $18 an hour, which would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the U.S., by 2026. Fast food workers in California must now have to be pai...
California's new$20 minimum wagefor fast food workers has come at a burdensome cost for franchise owners. Not only have many been forced to make some tough decisions – slashing hours and cutting out jobs, but now, in some instances, they're even filling in for others to...
In a statement after the criticism, Newsom's office argued that Panera Bread is not exempt from the law. California's minimum wage for most other jobs is $16. How are chains reacting to the California fast food minimum wage hike?
As of January 1, 2024, the current minimum wage in California is $16.00 per hour. It is illegal for California employers to pay workers less than minimum wage.
Milton Friedman warned decades ago that the minimum wage “has the effect of making the poor people at the bottom of the wage scale—those it was designed to help—worse off than before.” John Stossel alsoreportedin May on the new minimum wage: ...
LOS ANGELES -- Voters will decide in November whether California should raise its hourly minimum wage to $18 by 2026 and pay workers what would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the country. That would be on par with Hawaii, where workers are on track to get paid at least $18 pe...
California's new law boosting the minimum wage for fast-food workers in the state to $20 an hour went into effect Monday, impacting restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, AB 1228, in...