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The minimum wage for fast-food workers in California is set to increase to $20 per hour on April 1st, but one curious carve-out in the new minimum wage law has ignited controversy in the state.
A fast food restaurant that “operates a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread,” as of Sept. 15, 2023, will be exempt from the new wage law, according to the bill.
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In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
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Minimum wage by state by year. In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [4] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional. [5]
California’s fast food council will convene this week with a major question in play: Who is actually eligible for a mysterious exemption to the new minimum wage law that takes effect next month ...