The new AB 1228 legislation, or the Fast Food Franchisor Responsibility Act, will give fast-food employees in California the highest guaranteed base pay in the industry nationwide.
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Yup, 20 bucks an hour to fuck up your order.
While it mentions it in this article but is overlooked in others is the fact that it's just the fast food workers that get this bump, while the California minimum wage for everybody else remains at $15.50 an hour.
So here you've got somebody with zero ambition in life making your hamburger or whatever while earning 20 bucks an hour but at the same time, there's another kid who's busting his ass in the 105 degree heat doing construction labor hoping his boss will notice his efforts and promote him up to a carpenter's helper so he can actually learn something useful.
