A group of restaurant franchisees and associations may have gathered enough signatures to postpone the law until a 2024 ballot vote.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A fast-food wage law has been put on hold by a state judge, reports the Wall Street Journal. The law, known as the FAST Recovery Act, was signed into law in September and creates a government panel that would set hourly wages for fast-food workers of up to $22 beginning next year and establish workplace standards. The wages can increase annually by the same as the consumer-price index, up to a maximum of 3.5%.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang has temporarily stopped the law from going into effect. It was supposed to be implemented on January 1. The judge wrote that the court couldn’t consider the matter in such a short time frame. The court is set to hold a hearing on the injunction on January 13.
In early December, a group of franchisee and restaurant business associations, called Save Local Restaurants, filed a petition that would place the law on the 2024 ballot. Now the secretary of state’s office is determining whether the petition has about 623,000 valid signatures. If there are enough signatures, the law would not go into effect, and the measure would be placed on the 2024 ballot.
The group filed a lawsuit last week against the state’s Department of Industrial Relations. The suit asked the court to block the implementation of the law until the office has finished the petition validation...
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