Big restaurant chains have seen California’s new fast food wage law and they want that order canceled.
The “Save Local Restaurants” coalition, which opposes the state’s FAST Recovery Act, said Friday it had raised more than $12 million, with Burger King, McDonald’s, and KFC owner Yum Brands among the contributors, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The law could set the fast food minimum wage as high as $22 an hour next year. In California, the minimum wage is now $15 an hour, with a 50-cent increase slated for next year.
According to the coalition, the law “is expected to increase prices by as much as 20% during a period of decades-high inflation and will have cascading impacts throughout local economies.”
The coalition says it’s made up of a “small business owners, restaurant owners, franchisees, employees, consumers, and community-based organizations.”
The legislation applies to fast food restaurants with more than 100 locations nationwide. Companies are prohibited under it from retaliating against workers who make complaints.
Opponents of the law hope to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures to put the legislation on hold through next year and let voters decide in a referendum whether to block it permanently after that.
Otherwise the legislation, signed into law on Labor Day by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will go into effect on Jan. 1, with a 10-person council working to set a minimum wage for fast food workers, with adjustments for inflation.
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