{"id":12021,"date":"2023-10-23T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:40:08","slug":"a-devastating-financial-blow-californias-so-called-draconian-fast-food-bill-is-now-law-heres-why-mcdonalds-franchisees-say-itll-cost-small-business-owners-250k-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12021","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A devastating financial blow&#8217;: California&#8217;s so-called &#8216;draconian&#8217; fast-food bill is now law \u2014 here&#8217;s why McDonald&#8217;s franchisees say it&#8217;ll cost small business owners $250K a year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;B 1228 applies to fast-food chains with at least 60 locations nationwide \u2014 except for those that make and sell their own bread. The bill\u2019s landmark change is a minimum wage hike to $20 per hour, almost $5 higher than the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/moneywise.com\/news\/economy\/joe-rogan-gabriel-iglesias-slam-san-francisco?utm_source=syn_oath_mon&amp;utm_medium=Z&amp;utm_campaign=32630&amp;utm_content=oath_mon_32630_Golden+State\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State<\/a>\u2019s minimum wage of $15.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would also see the establishment of a Fast Food Council to set wages and make recommendations for working conditions. The council has the power to increase the new minimum wage each year through 2029 up to 3.5% or the average change in the Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners, whichever is lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One key part of the bill has been removed since its proposal. Previously, AB 1228 would have made fast-food corporations jointly liable if franchisees committed labor violations, which the NOA believes could have led to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accesswire.com\/766246\/McDonalds-Independent-Franchisee-Association-Strongly-Opposes-California-AB-1228\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frivolous lawsuits against franchisees<\/a>\u201d that would then force the larger corporate head offices to exert more control over local operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/devastating-financial-blow-mcdonald-franchisee-163000954.html\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/devastating-financial-blow-mcdonald-franchisee-163000954.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;B 1228 applies to fast-food chains with at least 60 locations nationwide \u2014 except for those that make and sell their own bread. The bill\u2019s landmark change is a minimum wage hike to $20 per hour, almost $5 higher than the Golden State\u2019s minimum wage of $15.50.<br \/>\nIt would also see the establishment of a Fast Food Council to set wages and make recommendations for working conditions. The council has the power to increase the new minimum wage each year through 2029 up to 3.5% or the average change in the Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners, whichever is lower.<\/p>\n<p>One key part of the bill has been removed since its proposal. Previously, AB 1228 would have made fast-food corporations jointly liable if franchisees committed labor violations, which the NOA believes could have led to \u201cfrivolous lawsuits against franchisees\u201d that would then force the larger corporate head offices to exert more control over local operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/devastating-financial-blow-mcdonald-franchisee-163000954.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,217,165,1716,1469,351,236,551,574],"class_list":["post-12021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-fast-food","tag-government-intervention","tag-minimum-wage","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12022,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}