Most of California's fast food workers are set to be paid at least $20 per hour. A new law mandating the minimum wage increase for fast food workers is scheduled to take effect on Monday.
Fast food and health care workers in California are slated to see major salary increases under a deal announced Monday betweenlabor unionsand the restaurant industry. Under the new deal, restaurant chains with at least 60 national locations must pay their workers aminimum hourly wageo...
The California Fast Food Workers Union is urging the state to again raise the minimum wage for fast-food employees. According to a letter sent to the statewide Fast Food Council last month, the union is asking for a $20.70 wage starting in 2025 and a $21.40 wage in 2026. The proposed ...
Fast-food pricesin California are set to rise this spring with businesses responding to the state’s $20 per hour minimum wage law for fast-food workers that will take effect on April 1, 2024. The law was signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom last fall and will...
What to know about new minimum wage in California A customer picks up a meal bag at a McDonald's drive-thru window in Los Angeles, Sept. 28, 2023.Damian Dovarganes/AP Starting April 1, 2024, the minimum wage for the state's 500,000 fast-food workers will increase to $20 per h...
While the higher minimum wage for fast food employees most clearly has an impact on nonexempt worker wages, it also increases the exempt salary threshold for managers and other salaried employees of covered fast food restaurants. Under California law, employees classified under the “white collar”...
California's minimum wage is $16 per hour. But starting April 1, most fast-food restaurants in the state must pay their workers at least $20 an hour under legislation Newsom signed last year to much fanfare. It doesn't apply to restaurants that have on-site b...
California’s minimum wage for most workers in the state is $16 an hour. Voters will decide in November whether to increase the rate gradually to $18 an hour by 2026, which would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the U.S. Fast food workers in California now have to be paid at...
California cooks, cashiers and baristas have been organizing, striking and fighting to better the fast-food industry for a decade. In 2016 fast-food workers made California the first state in the nation to adopt a $15/hour minimum wage. In 2023, they made history again when Governor GavinNew...
That starting point of $20 an hour is significantly more than the state’s already relatively high minimum wage of $15.50 an hour (one that’s set to increase to $16 in January 2024). California’s fast-food workers will now be among the highest-paid low-wage workers in the nation. ...