New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California is set to start Monday
New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California is set to start Monday
Most of California's fast food workers are set to be paid at least $20 per hour. A new law mandating the minimum wage increase for fast food workers is scheduled to take effect on Monday.
Oh no! Jobs will be lost and businesses that pay slave wages will have to close!
The same arguments made against increasing minimum wage were made to argue against the 40 hour work week and weekends off.
I just don’t think business hire more people than they require regardless of the wages. If they could make do with one less person, they already would have.
In the US, restaurants absolutely do hire more people than they require. Employees are paid on tips. Add as many $2.13/hr servers as you can. Hire hire hire. Never stop hiring. You'll be sloughing off people constantly because they aren't making enough money, so you have to keep hiring ever more aggressively to feed the beast. But you'll have 5 people to run every plate of food, bus every table, all that stuff.
Of course, one really competent server is as good as 5 of the ones being churned, but it's too hard to get and hold onto one competent server, so better 5 incompetent ones.
This is why the only way to judge how well-managed your favorite bar/restaurant is to look at their (non-family) staff turnover. If the same cadre works there for multiple years, you know it's top-notch. If there's a new cast every few months, you know its management is a shit parade.
That doesn't really fit with the extremely popular model of having a bunch of people scrambling for hours and never getting more than 30.
Yeah, if they could make do.
If they can’t make do, those are the businesses that close.
Businesses tend to optimize for profit. On graphs that looks like parameterized curves. Just because a business changes configuration in response to one of its parameters changing doesn’t mean it wasn’t already optimized under the old set of parameters.
Why only fast food workers?
Because they organized.
Because capital thrives on division so naturally we can't raise the straight minimum wage.
The law reflected a carefully crafted compromise between the fast food industry and labor unions, which had been fighting over wages, benefits and legal liabilities for close to two years.
The law originated during private negotiations between unions and the industry, including the unusual step of signing confidentiality agreements.
The law applies to restaurants offering limited or no table service and which are part of a national chain with at least 60 establishments nationwide
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already known for its high cost of living.
Instead, data showed wages went up and employment did not fall, said Michael Reich, a labor economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
The law reflected a carefully crafted compromise between the fast food industry and labor unions, which had been fighting over wages, benefits and legal liabilities for close to two years.
The law originated during private negotiations between unions and the industry, including the unusual step of signing confidentiality agreements.
The law applies to restaurants offering limited or no table service and which are part of a national chain with at least 60 establishments nationwide.
But the Newsom administration said the wage increase law does apply to Panera Bread because the restaurant does not make dough on-site.
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Well, it's now Tuesday and the world hasn't ended. I guess things went okay then.
awesome to hear. haven't lived in CA for a while though
Hell yes, California! I don't love
everythingmost things that Newsom does, and I certainly don't like many of our state and federal legislators, but we are at least markedly better than most other places in this capitalist shithole of a country.It's funny but sad. Every time I see news of the minimum wage increasing somewhere, it always feels like it's 5 years too late.
It's always better than nothing, but not quite enough