Landmark Law Creates a 10-member Fast Food Council

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power in how to run the restaurants they work in.

The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.

Newsom was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.

The law caps minimum wage increases for fast-food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 per hour starting in 2023 with cost of living increases thereafter.

Leave it to California to pass feel-good legislation that will create an unnecessary bureaucracy which will create unnecessary rules which will have many more negative unintended consequences than any beneficial results.  Here are some of the unintended consequences:  lay-offs, closing stores, not opening new stores, uncompetitive labor costs, unionization, automation, large franchises staying away. 

Pray this doesn’t come to Michigan.