California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228 into law in September 2023, which established a Fast Food Council within California's Department of Industrial Relations and increased the ...

It looks like not all fast-food restaurants are created equal. Panera Bread is one of the only takeaway-style franchises to avoid California’s recent minimum wage hike legislation, which will go into ...

New data shows California has lost close to 20,000 fast-food jobs since Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed the $20 minimum wage bill two years ago.

Today, it’s determined to be a cautionary tale, showing other states a clear example of what bad public policy looks like.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised just short of utopia when he signed California’s FAST Recovery Act. Two years later, the only thing raising the state’s minimum wage for fast-food ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- Hundreds of protesters marched in Berkeley on Wednesday as part of a national movement that organizers call the "Fight for 15." It's an effort to get the federal minimum wage ...

Fortunately it only applies in states that have no minimum-wage law of their own or a minimum wage below the federal minimum wage.

Working in fast food can often be a challenging and tiring endeavor, with wages typically being less than competitive and full-time hours hard to come by. Now, according to a LendingTree survey, it ...

Lawmakers made an exception for smaller restaurant chains, implicitly acknowledging that the law would come with costs.