Let’s see. They can’t keep the power on in California during heat waves, yet are going to all electric cars by 2035. They can’t contain wildfires because of poor forest management. Now, California is getting ready to pay burger flippers and other fast food workers a $22 per hour minimum wage. Think fast food is expensive in California now? Just wait until this goes into effect.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday establishing a council empowered to raise the minimum wage for his state’s fast food workers to more than $20 per hour.
The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (AB 257), passed by the state legislature a week prior, orders a ten-member Fast Food Council to appropriately create wage, working conditions and training standards for fast food restaurant employees. The law allows the council to impose a minimum fast food wage of up to $22 per hour in 2023.
“Today’s action gives hardworking fast-food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry,” Newsom said Monday.