A Carl’s Jr. franchisee is liquidating nearly 50 locations and closing 10 restaurants in California after filing for ...

A $30 minimum wage ballot initiative is being pushed in Oakland and Alameda County by One Fair Wage, despite studies linking past California wage hikes to job losses.

Quirk-Silva's bill specifically bars the state department from taking the new $28 per hour townhome wages into account when ...

Carl’s Jr. is staring down the potential loss of dozens of California locations after a franchisee and its affiliates filed ...

An earlier version of this story attributed the combined number of eliminated positions to a single company. The story has been updated to reflect some of the anticipated cuts at individual employers.

On January 1, 2025, California increased their state minimum wage to $16.50 per hour for all employers, regardless of size. While California may have one of the highest state-mandated minimum wages, ...

California’s wage-and-hour framework is deliberately interconnected. A change in the statewide minimum wage—the foundation on which many other wage rules rest—triggers a cascade of downstream ...

California’s Fast Food Council, created under Gov. Gavin Newsom, has stalled with no chairperson and no full meetings in over ...

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