What is more important to your kid’s future — a burger flipper at McDonald’s putting together a Happy Meal or a teacher in charge of their education?
You will be able to answer that question on Nov. 5, 2024.
That’s when you, as a voter, will have a chance to decide the fate of the FAST Recovery Act that breezed through the California Legislature last year.
The law establishes a 10-member council empowered to set minimum wages as well as standards for hours and working conditions for California’s fast food workers.
The International Franchise Association and the National Restaurant Association in December submitted more than 1 million signatures from voters in support of a ballot referendum to stop the law.
California law requires 620,000 signatures to place the law on the ballot. As of last week, the Secretary of State’s office deemed more than 712,000 signatures were valid.
A judge blocked the Jan. 1, 2023 implementation of the law for fast food wages that could be raised as high as $22 an hour by the end of this year pending the signatures being verified.
And now that enough signatures have been verified state law kicks in that requires any new law that qualifies as a ballot referendum be held in abeyance until voters weigh in.
California’s minimum wage for all workers is now at $15.50 an hour, having jumped 50 cents at the start of the year.
Based on a 40-hour week, a $22 per hour wage comes to $45,760 a year.
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