FILE -- Fast food workers and union activists demonstrate outside the California State Capitol to rally support for legislation to increase fast-food worker wages on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif. On Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law giving fast food workers a $20 minimum wage on April 1, 2024. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — — California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law signed Thursday by Democratic Gov.
It also settles — for now, at least — a fight between labor and business groups over how to regulate the industry. In exchange for higher pay, labor unions have dropped their attempt to make fast food corporations liable for the misdeeds of their independent franchise operators in California, an action that could have upended the business model on which the industry is based. The industry, meanwhile, has agreed to pull a referendum related to worker wages off the 2024 ballot.
In California, most fast food workers are over 18 and the main providers for their family, according to Enrique Lopezlira, director of the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center’s Low Wage Work Program. Now, the focus will shift to another group of low-wage California workers waiting for their own minimum wage increase. Lawmakers passed a separate bill earlier this month that would gradually raise the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 per hour over the next decade. That raise wouldn’t apply to doctors and nurses, but to most everyone else who works at hospitals, dialysis clinics or other health care facilities.
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