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Figures for California fast-food restaurants from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show that on a seasonally adjusted basis employment actually rose in the September-to-January period by ...
The bill will affect about 500,000 fast food workers in California, according to the Service Employees International Union, which has been working to unionize fast food workers in the state ...
The Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act (AB 257) is a Californian law which brings multiple reforms to the state's fast food industry. The bill's provisions aim to allow workers and California state to hold fast-food chains responsible for issues like wage theft and overtime pay, and establish a council which itself shall be responsible for establishing minimum standards ...
Other exemptions to new fast food wage law. Last Monday, Newsom signed Assembly Bill 610 into law, which will exempt fast food restaurants located within “airports, hotels, event centers, theme ...
The pandemic intensified the mental health issues that fast-food workers had already faced. On top of the known mental health issues, they now had a fear of losing their jobs, contracting COVID-19 and spreading the virus to others. [50] The fast food workers have said they have dealt with being sexually harassed and mentally abused.
The Fast Food Workers Union cited a recent report published by labor researchers at Northwestern and Rutgers that found 1 in 4 fast food workers were illegally paid below the minimum wage ...
"The study closest to ours found that $15 minimum wages in California and New York increased fast-food wages and did not negatively affect fast food employment, while substantially reducing hiring ...
The impact on employers and workers within the restaurant industry is a major focus of the Fight for $15 movement. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants and other food services employ about sixty percent of all workers paid at or below the minimum wage, as of 2018. [57]