California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB610 into law. If you missed it, this is the “exemption” to the FAST Act (Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act) passed and signed into law in 2023 and scheduled to go into effect on April 1. The law raises the minimum wage for fast food workers in California from $16 an hour to $20 an hour. The wage increase applies to fast food chains with more than 60 locations nationally, and there has been much hew and cry, not only because government is further dictating how small businesses should run (fascism, anyone?), but because certain segments of fast food are exempted from it. With the signing of AB610, those exemptions for those industries and event venues are now guaranteed.
JUST IN: Gov. @GavinNewsom signs AB 610 into law. Authored by Asm. @ChrisHoldenNews (D-Pasadena), the bill provides exemptions for the $20 fast food…
