Republican leaders in California are calling for an investigation into why a new state law requiring a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers includes an exemption for restaurants like Panera Bread. The increase in minimum wage is helping workers but causing higher costs for businesses.
Republican leaders in California are calling for an investigation into why a new state law requiring a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers includes an exemption for restaurants like Panera Bread . The new California $20 minimum wage for most fast-food restaurants hit April 1. It jumped $4.50, or 19%, from the $15.50 on Dec. 31 That increase definitely is helping the 500,000 workers getting the pay boost – those who will keep their jobs.
Some early reports from Monday are showing businesses being slammed by the higher costs. The 19% increase is “unprecedented as far as I know,” Raymond Sfeir, director of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, told us
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