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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.
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.
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]
Holden and labor advocates agreed to remove joint liability in exchange for a $20-per-hour fast food worker minimum wage and allowing a weakened version of the council to move forward.
Some types of labor are exempt: Employers may pay tipped labor a minimum of $2.13 per hour, as long as the hour wage plus tip income equals at least the minimum wage. Persons under the age of 20 may be paid $4.25 an hour for the first 90 calendar days of employment (sometimes known as a youth, teen, or training wage) unless a higher state ...
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.
Flynn, who owns 24 Paneras in California, has said he will pay his workers the new minimum wage starting next month. But confusion remains for the more than 160 other Panera locations in the state.
California Assembly Bill 5 (2019) California State Legislature; Full name: An act to amend Section 3351 of, and to add Section 2750.3 to, the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 606.5 and 621 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor