Saul Loeb - AFP / Getty Images; PlumpJack Inn / FacebookCommentary Newsom's Restaurant Pays $16 an Hour Despite Law Crippling Fast Food Chains with $20 Minimum Wage Yet again, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading by anti-example -- the same way that he did with restaurant restrictions under COVID-19. By C. Douglas Golden April 5, 2024
Frederic J. Brown - AFP / Getty Images ; Justin Sullivan / Getty Images ; Bruce Bennett / Getty ImagesCommentary Burger King, In-N-Out, and Others Raise Prices Significantly 2 Days After California's $20 Minimum Wage Kicks In California's new minimum wage law is already making menu items more expensive as residents get a lesson in economics. By Samuel Short April 3, 2024
Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesCommentary Countless Workers Face Layoffs, Reduced Hours as California's Outrageous New Minimum Wage Law Kicks In These kinds of consequences can only be called "unforeseen" if liberals are the ones in charge of foreseeing them. By Joe Saunders April 2, 2024
Jason Taylor AG / Shutterstock California Fast-Food Chains to Fire Workers as $20 Minimum Wage Kicks In The Democrats' continued hiking of the minimum wage seems to be driving businesses to make drastic decisions. By Warner Todd Huston March 25, 2024
Steven Senne / AP; Damian Dovarganes - File / APCommentary Panera Bread Hit with Boycott Calls After Gavin Newsom's Minimum Wage Exemption Is Exposed Some folks are boycotting Panera Bread in light of the new minimum wage law that includes an exemption benefiting one of Newsom's donors. By Allison Anton March 1, 2024
Mario Tama / Getty ImagesCommentary California's New $20 Minimum Wage Law Includes Odd Exemption That Benefits a Major Gavin Newsom Donor California includes an odd exemption in its new minimum wage law, but it makes more sense when you see the connection to a big Newsom donor. By Allison Anton February 28, 2024
Damian Dovarganes / APCommentary California Senate Candidate Floats Radical Bump to Minimum Wage, Smugly Tells Critics to 'Just Do the Math' The result would be layoffs or shutdowns due to skyrocketing labor costs, and say goodbye to mom-and-pop stores or value meals. By Rachel M. Emmanuel February 18, 2024
Jonathan Weiss / ShutterstockCommentary Over 1,100 Pizza Hut Delivery Drivers Set to Get Axe Ahead of Blue State Minimum Wage Hike California's minimum wage hike has not even gone into effect and it is already costing the jobs of the very people it was supposed to help. By Warner Todd Huston December 29, 2023
Carlos Becerra / Getty Images You May Be at Risk: New Woke Bill Signed Will Kill 1,200 Jobs, Thousands More Almost Overnight The layoffs will specifically impact 1,200 workers across Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties in California. By Ben Kew December 28, 2023
Matt Cardy / Getty ImagesCommentary Third Major Franchisee Gives Grim News: Burger Kings Keep Going Up for Sale The chain has struggled with both high labor costs and food inflation over the past few years, and they’re hardly alone. By C. Douglas Golden November 10, 2023