California FTW: Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers Raised to $ 20/hr

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

Agreed. Heard yesterday that Diane Feinstein was work 90 million dollars. That seems pretty high for a public servant. I must be missing something.....

AOC, with an IQ of 65, became a multi-millionaire in her first term. And nobody ever seems to question any of this.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

AOC, with an IQ of 65, became a multi-millionaire in her first term. And nobody ever seems to question any of this.

Only way this stops is outlaw any and all income outside of public service money while in office and for a set number of years after you leave office.
Scrutinize every dollar they make.
Also every office should have term limits. No way to get some of the crooks out as it stands

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

Dude, you have a man crush on Mitt Romney that can be seen from space. I really don't think you are a Republican. Certainly not a conservative. Pierre DeLecto was nothing but Hillary-lite.

Yet you keep bringing him up. Why is that?

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Yet you keep bringing him up. Why is that?

To illustrate the fact that you are no conservative. I have zero desire to vote for somebody the deep state nominates for the Republican candidate. The only reason President Trump is facing the charges he is facing is that the deep state is terrified of him. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they didn't start charging him with crimes that aren't even on the books. All while refusing to look at Biden's corruption.



Edited to correct my prior statement: Pierre DeLecto was nothing but a carpetbagging Hillary-lite.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Only way this stops is outlaw any and all income outside of public service money while in office and for a set number of years after you leave office.
Scrutinize every dollar they make.
Also every office should have term limits. No way to get some of the crooks out as it stands

The best way to stop it is to murder these evil bastards and hang their bodies on a pike on the capitol lawn for all to see. A visual reminder that you are next you corrupt mutha fuker…and you know who you are.

So straighten the fukk up or the killings will continue until morale improves.

[Bill]

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by LATB

The best way to stop it is to murder these evil bastards and hang their bodies on a pike on the capitol lawn for all to see. A visual reminder that you are next you corrupt mutha fuker…and you know who you are.

So straighten the fukk up or the killings will continue until morale improves.

Back when the French still had testicles, they had a solution for these problems.

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

To illustrate the fact that you are no conservative. I have zero desire to vote for somebody the deep state nominates for the Republican candidate. The only reason President Trump is facing the charges he is facing is that the deep state is terrified of him. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they didn't start charging him with crimes that aren't even on the books. All while refusing to look at Biden's corruption.



Edited to correct my prior statement: Pierre DeLecto was nothing but a carpetbagging Hillary-lite.

Trump is facing charges because of his own actions, stop giving him a pass because you support him.

I know what you're thinking, but Mitt!

[Yesfam]

I had dinner last night with an friend who owns a local construction company. They do contract work for some of the local utilities. He told me the local gas company was ready to mandate a $41 minimum wage for construction workers on their projects. In the next breath they wanted him to assure he would not increase his rates in return.

[Rikki Z-06]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Trump is facing charges because of his own actions, stop giving him a pass because you support him.

I know what you're thinking, but Mitt!

2017 We got him now.
2018 We got him now.
2019 We got him now.
2020 We got him now.
2021 We got him now.
2022 We got him now.
2023 We got him now.
2024 Good Morning Mr President

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Yesfam

I had dinner last night with an friend who owns a local construction company. They do contract work for some of the local utilities. He told me the local gas company was ready to mandate a $41 minimum wage for construction workers on their projects. In the next breath they wanted him to assure he would not increase his rates in return.

Jackleg half assed dope smoking non union residential carpenters are making $30 per hour. Hell, non English speaking probably illegal Hispanics are making $30.

A good professional carpenter is making $50. Top notch guys are making $100 per hour but the market doesn’t recognize it because they don’t work by the hour.

[Bill]

https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/busine...um-wage-looms/

Calif. fast-food chains slash workers as $20-an-hour minimum wage looms
By Social Links for Shannon Thaler
Published March 25, 2024, 9:02 a.m. ET

California restaurants are reportedly laying off staff and reducing hours for other team members in an effort to cut costs ahead of a California state law taking effect on April 1 that will raise fast-food workers’ hourly wage to $20.

In the months leading up to the wage mandate, California eateries, particularly pizza joints, have established a plan to cut jobs, according to state records obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza — a Menlo Park, Calif.-founded chain of 400 pizza parlors, mostly on the West Coast — have said they plan to lay off around 1,280 delivery drivers this year, according to records that major employers must submit to the state before large layoffs, The Journal reported.

Pizza Hut already sent notices to employees informing them of their last day.

Michael Ojeda, a Pizza Hut driver for eight years in Ontario, Calif., received one of the notes from Pizza Hut franchisee Southern California Pizza in December telling him that his last day of work would be in February.
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Southern California Pizza — which operates 224 Pizza Huts in the greater Los Angeles area — sent notices to staffers late last year informing them that their last day of work will take place ahead of the April 1 minimum-wage hike. AFP via Getty Images

Southern California Pizza — which operates 224 Pizza Huts in the greater Los Angeles area — offered $400 in severance if Ojeda stayed through February, according to The Journal.

But Ojeda, who told the outlet that he made hundreds of dollars a week in wages and tips as a delivery driver, decided to claim unemployment instead.

“Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice it was taken away,” said 29-year-old Ojeda, who was supporting his mother and partner on his Pizza Hut delivery wages.


Representatives for Pizza Hut did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

A spokesperson for Round Table Pizza confirmed to The Post that the individuals being laid off are delivery drivers.

“We anticipate third-party delivery providers in turn will see a boost in their businesses, which will require additional staff on their end. That said, delivery service fees may increase, and the customer will most likely see even higher prices as a result of this ongoing shift,” the company rep added. “This is the reality of today’s restaurants.”

In San Jose, Calif., Brian Hom, the owner of two locations of Vitality Bowls, has dealt with impending increased labor costs by running his Açaí bowl joints with two employees instead of his typical four, according to The Journal.

As a result, it takes longer for customers to receive their order, which has also increased in price by around 10% to offset higher wages.

“I’m definitely not going to hire anymore,” he added, per The Journal.

Other popular chains like McDonald’s and Chipotle have also said that they will be lifting menu prices in California to pay for the minimum wage hikes the Golden State passed in September.

At some fast-food locations, the April 1 minimum-wage increase for California fast-food workers represents as much as a 25% increase from the state’s broader $16 minimum wage.

Panera Bread, however, was ruled exempt from the $20-an-hour minimum wage hike by Gov. Gavin Newsom after the billionaire owner of several of the chain’s locations donated to his campaign, according to a report.
California Governor Gavin Newsom discussing the passing of Proposition 1 at a news conference in Los Angeles, pointing towards audience 3
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a measure into law in September that will raise the minimum wage of fast-food workers in the state from $16 to $20 an hour. AP

Newsom reportedly sought the exemption via the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Act), which includes an unusual carve-out that excuses “chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.”
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Panera’s exclusion from the labor cost increases benefits, among others, Greg Flynn, the billionaire CEO of Flynn Restaurant Group, the company that owns some two dozen Panera Bread locations in the state.

Flynn, who attended the same high school as Newsom, has been involved in business dealings with the California governor, and has also contributed to Newsom’s political campaigns.

[GTOguy]

I predict even MORE restaurants closing or moving out of state. I don't patronize any of the above, anyway, so no loss to me.

[Aerovette]

“We anticipate third-party delivery providers in turn will see a boost in their businesses, which will require additional staff on their end. That said, delivery service fees may increase, and the customer will most likely see even higher prices as a result of this ongoing shift,” the company rep added. “This is the reality of today’s restaurants.”

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[bsmith]

I wish I could find the video of a guy that walks up to a couple people and talks about minimum wage.
Starts throwing out ridiculous numbers for a new minimum wage, and the moron agrees every time.
They got up to around $50/hr and moron started slowing down his answers.
Then admitted the last time they raised it, his employer cut his hours.

That's ok, Uncle Bernie is going to get it set up so we work 32 hours and get paid for 40!

[Unsuspicious]

Should've happened a long time ago- paying more to fewer hard workers as opposed to paying beans to a tribe of monkeys.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

Should've happened a long time ago- paying more to fewer hard workers as opposed to paying beans to a tribe of monkeys.

Interesting perspective.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

I predict even MORE restaurants closing or moving out of state. I don't patronize any of the above, anyway, so no loss to me.

Regular Karnak you are!

[Aerovette]

I would like blue parts of California to look like Detroit. Let all the businesses move out, all, the sensible people move out, and leave those areas a shell. Then see how Newsom explains it away.

[Wathen1955]

The worst part of this is Newscum also created another ****ing review committee in order to review it yearly. Another ****ing bureaucratic department, then wonders why the state is running out of money. He could not even run a lemonade stand.