Fast-food workers’ rights bill AB 257 on hold until 2024 ballot
— a coalition of fast-food franchisees and franchisors who oppose the measure — gathered enough signatures to place a referendum on the 2024 ballot.
The coalition, which needed 623,000 voter signatures by Dec. 4 to put the bill on hold, submitted more than 1 million. At least 712,000 wereAB 257 would create a 10-person, state-run council to negotiate wages, hours and working conditions for the more than half a million fast-food workers in California. It would establish a minimum wage of up to $22 an hour in 2023, with capped annual increases thereafter at restaurants with more than 100 locations nationwide.
The bill is designed to help workers who often struggle to make ends meet. It would also address wage theft, harassment, discrimination and unsafe work conditions fast-food workers say they face on the jobfrom the UC Berkeley Labor Center shows that people working fast-food jobs are more likely to live in or near poverty. One in five families with a member holding a fast-food job has an income below the poverty line, the study said.
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