A quick reminder for national Fast Food restaurants, the California minimum wage is going up to $20 per hour as of April 1, 2024.

As we wrote in our Alert back in October 2023, AB 1228 created a Fast Food Council in California, which is now part of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The Council now has members and had its first meeting in March. Details about its members and that first meeting can be found here.

The DIR also published some helpful FAQs to answer some harder questions about whether AB 1228 applies to your business, as either a franchise owner, unit within a “grocery establishment,” or bakery. The FAQs also answer questions about the powers of the Council to impose further regulations on the industry or increase to the minimum wage even more.

No fooling here — those burgers, nuggets, fries and shakes will keep getting pricier!

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