UPDATE: Sept. 15, 2023: This piece has been updated to reflect that the California Assembly concurred in the Senate amendments.

Dive Brief:

• A major labor law deal passed the California state Senate in the waning hours of the legislative session Thursday, by a vote of 32 to 8.
• The deal, an amended version of AB 1228, repeals and replaces the FAST Recovery Act (AB 257), thereby instituting a wage setting council composed of representatives of industry and labor, with the power to advise, rather than modify, working conditions at fast food chains with more than 60 units nationwide.
• The passage of the amended bill kills the possibility of a California joint-employer liability law for the time being, though the National Labor Relations Board is working on its own standard.

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The passage of the amended AB 1228 concludes a process that began in June, Sean Kennedy, EVP of public affairs for the National Restaurant Association, said. Around that time, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration began reaching out to the Service Employees International Union and industry groups, and brokered negotiated meetings in July. Negotiations, Kennedy said, continued within hours of the deal’s announcement on Monday.

By backing the deal, SEIU and its allies have given up on the strong fast food council included in AB 257. That council would’ve had the power “to establish sectorwide minimum standards on wages, working...

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