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“I guess if you’re in the bread-making business, there’s a lot of dough to go around,” one Republican lawmaker said.
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.
Proposition 32 will ask California voters if the statewide minimum wage should be increased to $18 an hour. The current minimum wage in California is $16 an hour and adjusts for inflation.
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]
Some types of labor are exempt: Employers may pay tipped labor a minimum of $2.13 per hour, as long as the hourly 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 bill also increased the exemption from minimum wage law for small businesses from $362,500 to $500,000 of annual sales. [54] By a vote of 61 to 39, the Senate approved a bill to increase the minimum wage to $4.55 per hour. [55] President Bush vetoed the bill, [56] calling the increase "excessive". [57]
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.
This includes the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, whose contract cost an estimated $1 billion and gives them an enhanced retirement benefit.