Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast-food workers and a fast-food regulatory council which has the authority to raise the industry’s minimum wage annually. But between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023.
    • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
      312·
      7 months ago

      lol. You crack me up. As the article points out it made them unprofitable. So they laid people off or closed. You can’t take a lower margin when you’re already a negative margin.

        • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
          111·
          7 months ago

          lol. None of these are doing that. You think a franchise owner is making 2000x times their employees ? A McDonald’s profits about 100k. That means the demise owner has to put down 1 million to get a 10% return. That means they are making 5x an employee but carry all the risk.

          You keep ranting about a living wage which by itself doesn’t mean anything. They were living in their wages before which means it was a living wage. Now they have no wages. So now they have an unlivable wage.

            • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
              19·
              7 months ago

              lol you confused executives with franchise owners, that makes your argument irrelevant.

              The article is talking about franchise owners. So why are you going on about some mythical executive is beyond me.

              Stop saying living wage since you don’t understand the word. It doesn’t mean what you think.

              I wasn’t always well to do. So I do understand the struggle. Why id rather have a job at 16 an hour rather then zero.

                • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca
                  6·
                  7 months ago

                  I love this narritave that people working in fast food for low wages are joyfully living their best life making big macs and singing gospel songs in 4 part harmony and on their day off they swing by the community food bank and everything is great - untill the evil Liberal McSocialist takes their job away with an evil laugh Mwahahaha! and the poor franchise owner loses everything he has to wear a barrel instead of clothes and smoke Honduran cigars instead of Dominican Oh such folly! Such Tribulation! Alas Babylon!

                  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
                    17·
                    7 months ago

                    Helps if you had read the articles where the woman says she was happy with her job and pay. She’s not upset because she doesn’t have a job or pay. She won’t be able to pay her bills. I get you feel self important to tell the plebes they don’t need jobs since but I can empathize with their plight.

                • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
                  26·
                  7 months ago

                  owners. ……how do you think corporate makes its money if not for the franchises

                  How to say you don’t understand a franchise without actually saying it. Corporate has zero to do with this.

                  A living wage = wage high enough to maintain a normal standard of living.

                  They had that. So now you can stop babbling about a living wage.

                  f you can’t even pay rent on a minimum wage job (let alone food or other expenses) then you’re not making a living wage

                  They were paying all their expenses. Can you cite where a laid off employee says otherwise? Only a liberal would think 0 is better than making a livable wage which they were doing