After the state hourly minimum wage increased to $20 in April, CEOs warned of price rises and job cuts \u2013 yet staff say \u2018that\u2019s a lie\u2019<\/p>\n
Joe Erlinger did not mince his words. \u201cThis lopsided, hypocritical and ill-considered legislation hurts everyone,\u201d the top McDonald\u2019s executive declared in 2022, as California<\/a> considered a landmark $20 hourly minimum wage for fast-food workers.<\/p>\n The state ignored such warnings, enforcing a pay rise for an estimated<\/a> 500,000 people in California \u2013 home to some of lowest-paid staff in the US workforce \u2013 last April.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the state hourly minimum wage increased to $20 in April, CEOs warned of price rises and job cuts \u2013 yet staff say \u2018that\u2019s a lie\u2019 Joe Erlinger did not mince his words. \u201cThis lopsided, hypocritical and ill-considered legislation hurts everyone,\u201d the top McDonald\u2019s executive declared in 2022, as California considered a landmark $20 hourly … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}