Rodrick said overall, he has raised prices about 5% to 7% in the last three months to anticipate the higher wages. Scott Rodrick started his first McDonald’s in the San Francisco Bay 30 years ago and now owns 18 locations. I think to be successful, we need to be successful, and our employees need to be successful together.” Michaela Mendelsohn, a franchisee who has been appointed to the new council, said, “There’s talk about showing both sides of this. And many affected owners own only one restaurant location. We’re just asking for what’s fair.”īut owners of some fast food franchise locations say in anticipation of this extra cost, they have already increased menu prices in the past few months, cut worker hours - or both. “What we’re fighting for is not unreasonable. “I definitely think it’s a very big deal,” said Jaylene Loubet, who works as a McDonald’s cashier. This council can also recommend standards for fast-food worker safety and work with existing state agencies to investigate issues like wage theft. The law also creates a fast-food council, a first of its kind in the US, with representatives from both the restaurant industry and workers, who can increase the wage annually for the rest of the decade, in pace with inflation or up to 3.5%, whichever is higher. The new rate applies to restaurant chains with more than 60 nationwide locations and is a result of a years-long fight by workers to establish better wages and working conditions, specifically in California’s fast-food industry. As of Monday, about half a million fast food workers in California are making at least $20 per hour, $4 higher than the overall state minimum wage.
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