California is home to more than half a million fast-food workers, more than any other U.S. state. California’s law empowers the Council to regulate fast-food restaurants that are part of chains with more than 60 locations nationwide, including wage increases every year of either 3.5% or...
California Eyes $15 Minimum Wage by 2022SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A political deal to raise California'sminimum wage to a nation-leading $15...Don ThompsonJustin Pritchard
CA enacted a $17.64 per hour minimum wage for its hotel employees – which will be the highest local minimum wage in the nation on January 1.
A living wage “I cannot live with this wage,” she said. The possibility of a wage increase, which would be the first for the Council since the state created it last year alongside the $20 fast-food minimum wage, has become a flashpoint in a growing debate about California’s unique...
The minimum wage in California in 2022 varies by location, and how that translates to annual salaries varies, too. The state minimum wage is $15 per hour, but some parts must pay more because living costs are very high. CA minimum salary for exempt emplo
Calling it a matter of "economic justice," California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday said a landmark deal had been reached to hike California's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, the nation's first such statewide move. At a news conference in Sacramento, state lawmakers, labor leaders ...
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) -- A legislative analysis says raising the minimum wage in California to the highest statewide level in the nation would eventually cost taxpayers an additional $3.6 billion a year in higher pay for government employees. ...
Today,California governor Jerry Brown will signa law raising the state’s the minimum wage (currently $10/hr – tied with Massachusetts for thehighest of any state) to $15/hr by 2022. This is a big deal. Although anumber of citiessuch as Los Angeles and Seattle have passed $15 minimum...
Inglewood voters approved the ordinance in November 2022, nearly a year before California legislators enacted a $25 minimum wage for health workers. Those statewidehigher wagesare to be phased in starting in June under California's first-in-the-nation law, but Gov. Gavin Newsom has since said...
As of January 1, 2025, California's state minimum wage increased to $16.50 per hour for all employees, with some limited exceptions. What type of workers are exempt from this