Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast-food workers and a fast-food regulatory council which has the authority to raise the industry’s minimum wage annually. But between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023.
    • NeuromancerOPM
      414·
      5 months ago

      That’s heartless to want people to lose their jobs when they were happy with their wages. You’re going to chip in and help them pay their bills?

        • NeuromancerOPM
          312·
          5 months ago

          lol. You crack me up. As the article points out it made them unprofitable. So they laid people off or closed. You can’t take a lower margin when you’re already a negative margin.

            • NeuromancerOPM
              111·
              5 months ago

              lol. None of these are doing that. You think a franchise owner is making 2000x times their employees ? A McDonald’s profits about 100k. That means the demise owner has to put down 1 million to get a 10% return. That means they are making 5x an employee but carry all the risk.

              You keep ranting about a living wage which by itself doesn’t mean anything. They were living in their wages before which means it was a living wage. Now they have no wages. So now they have an unlivable wage.

                • NeuromancerOPM
                  19·
                  5 months ago

                  lol you confused executives with franchise owners, that makes your argument irrelevant.

                  The article is talking about franchise owners. So why are you going on about some mythical executive is beyond me.

                  Stop saying living wage since you don’t understand the word. It doesn’t mean what you think.

                  I wasn’t always well to do. So I do understand the struggle. Why id rather have a job at 16 an hour rather then zero.