In a report from the Harvard Kennedy School on California’s minimum wage increase, authors Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett and Kevin Bruey argue that there have been no adverse effects on hours, scheduling, or benefits from legislation requiring $20 an hour wage for fast-food worker, but those workers are all from large fast-food chains. The study only looked at large fast-food companies and did not consider small businesses who would have much more difficulty in meeting the demands of the minimum wage law.
The report does not exhaustively list the fast-food outlets used as the basis of the report, only noting that “front line workers at some of the nation’s largest firms—from McDonald’s to Chipotle— contend with unstable schedules, limited benefits, and chronically low wages.”
The authors laud California as being “at the vanguard of progressive and innovative protections for fast food workers” and insists the state raising the minimum wage by $4 on Apr. 1, 2024 to $20 was one of these progressive and innovative protections” and constituted the largest such wage increase in US history.
The report found that “California fast food workers experienced substantial wage increases immediately after the new minimum wage went into effect” as the average hourly wage for fast food workers “increased by at least $2.50” while workers less than $20 fell by about 60 percent. […]
— Read More: thepostmillennial.com
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: The Post Millennial
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://truthbasedmedia.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
