{"id":1824588,"date":"2023-01-26T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824588"},"modified":"2023-01-26T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:54:56","slug":"california-puts-fast-food-law-on-2024-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-puts-fast-food-law-on-2024-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"California Puts \u201cFast-Food Law\u201d on 2024 Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-puts-fast-food-law-on-2024-ballot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Apple-Metro chairman and CEO Zane Tankel discusses California&#8217;s effort to police fast-food workers&#8217; wages and how the restaurant industry has bounced back from the COVID pandemic on &#8216;Cavuto: Coast to Coast.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast-food workers will be put in voters&#8217; hands.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative could overturn a first-in-the-nation law passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>The law affects more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-million fast-food workers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The referendum raised more than 623,000 valid voter signatures to be placed on the Nov. 5, 2024, election ballot, Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/judge-halts-california-fast-food-law-restaurants-unions-hammer-each-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JUDGE HALTS CALIFORNIA FAST-FOOD LAW AS RESTAURANTS, UNIONS HAMMER EACH OTHER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/931\/523\/McDonalds-California.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"California McDonald&#039;s restaurant\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>A sign is posted in front of a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant in San Leandro, California, on April 28, 2022.<\/span><span> (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The law establishes a 10-member council empowered to set minimum wages and standards for hours and working conditions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/food-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u2019s fast-food workers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two industry groups, the International Franchise Association and the National Restaurant Association, promoted the referendum that would leave its fate to voters.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents, who raised more than $10 million last year to fund the referendum campaign, argue that the law would burden owners of chain restaurant franchises and drive up the cost of food.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/931\/523\/Fast-Food.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Fast Food WOrkers\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Fast-food workers drive through a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant demanding a $15 hourly minimum wage in East Los Angeles on March 12, 2021.<\/span><span> (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes, File \/ AP Newsroom)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/restaurant-groups-push-overturn-california-fast-food-wage-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RESTAURANT GROUPS PUSH TO OVERTURN CALIFORNIA FAST-FOOD WAGE LAW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The law was temporarily blocked\u00a0from taking effect in December by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge while ballot signatures were counted and verified.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would have raised employee wages to as much as $22 an hour by the end of this year for chains such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/stocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s and Starbucks<\/a> that have 100 or more outlets nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s current minimum wage for all workers is $15.50 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to entice voters in the referendum fight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/931\/523\/In-N-Out.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"In-N-Out Burger\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Pedestrians walk below an In-N-Out Burger restaurant sign in San Francisco.<\/span><span> (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu \/ AP Newsroom)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/mcdonalds-unveils-first-automated-location-social-media-worried-will-cut-millions-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MCDONALD&#8217;S UNVEILS FIRST AUTOMATED LOCATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Service Employees International Union remained confident that the law will survive the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite fast food corporations\u2019 efforts to distort the referendum process, we know California voters see through their tricks,&#8221; SEIU President Mary Kay Henderson said in a statement. &#8220;No corporation is more powerful than half a million workers joining together to demand a seat at the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple-Metro chairman and CEO Zane Tankel discusses California&#8217;s effort to police fast-food workers&#8217; wages and how the restaurant industry has bounced back from the COVID pandemic on &#8216;Cavuto: Coast to Coast.&#8217; A California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast-food workers will be put in voters&#8217; hands. 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