California politicians instruct fast food chains to increase the wages of 500,000 workers by 25% - fast food chains jack prices – (they will soon be going out of business)
From here:
“Democrats in the state legislature passed the law last year that raises the wages of more than 500,000 people who work in fast food restaurants.
The law applies to restaurants offering limited or no table service and which are part of a national chain with at least 60 establishments nationwide.”
“The previous minimum wage was $16 per hour.” … “Menu prices at fast food chains across California have increased, as a new law went into effect requiring them to pay a $20-an-hour minimum wage to workers from Monday.”
S, the next time you see a crew with limited table service at a Mickey D’s, know that the lowest paid worker is getting 20 bucks an hour for a forty-hour week for 50 weeks a year = 40,000 a year.
O doubt the supervisors in the fast-food outlets will have to have a similar increase.
From here: “… some exemptions here and there – places like your airport burger joint and stadium hot dog stand got a free pass.”
Back to the NY Post article:
“The biggest leap was at a Burger King, where a Texas Double Whopper meal cost $15.09 on March 29 but surged to $16.89 on April 1, a whopping increase of $1.80 (nearly 12%) for the same meal.
The Big Fish meal also jumped from $7.49 on the menu before April 1 to $11.49 after — an increase of $4 (53%).”
The demand for jobs at fast food chains is going to be strong – expect lots of sackings and replacements!
I wonder what other minimum wage employees in other sectors are thinking as they are stuck at 16 bucks an hour – 32,000 a year.
I expect people will discover that home cooking is less than half the price of these fast-food places which will soon become boarded up – and that is even after the massively inflated prices of domestic electricity from all the ludicrous “green” energy and the inconvenience of rolling “brownouts”.
From here:
“California Rep. Barbara Lee thinks U.S. minimum-wage workers should earn a six-figure income; a proposal made Sunday evening during a Democratic Senate candidate forum as she sought to draw a contrast with her opponents in a tightly bunched field.
Ms. Lee, who’s running against fellow Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Katie Porter for the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said the federal minimum wage should be $50 per hour — or $104,000 per year.”
These are the same people that think blacks in California should 5 million bucks each in “reparations” for being black. The mob will always vote itself pay increases, no?
California reparations efforts eyeing $5 million payments, restitution - ABC News (go.com)
This is what happens when people vote for morons with as much sense as a dung beetle.
Maybe it’s a plan to reverse the mass exodus from the destruction of California by pathetic bullies.
Same as it ever was. Time to re-read Plato, Aristotle and Socrates before their writings are burned as hate speech by the current batch of kakistocrats.
Onwards!!
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So they will either pass the costs to us which means rhe govt gets more in taxes real slick or it forces them to continue their march towards automation and people lose their jobs and less wage taxes for the govt but more in unemployment...Either way it sets a dangerous precedent setting wages for private industry guess they are trying to push towards monthly payments to people for doing nothing..
Interesting. Libtards step up to reduce fast food consumption and inadvertently may improve the health of the community.