Last September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law which raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour. Even before the law took effect in April, California restaurant chains began laying off staff and making plans to raise prices. Other chains began looking into more automation (meaning fewer workers) as a way to control prices.
Today a group called the California Business and Industrial Alliance, which opposes the law, published a full page ad in California’s edition of USA Today pointing to some of the impact the law has had on various chain restaurants.
The California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) said nearly 10,000 jobs have been cut across fast food restaurants since Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law last year.
To highlight what it says are the unintended consequences of the law, CABIA has taken out an ad in Thursdsay’s…
