It's is a big win for the restaurant industry. The vote won't take place until Nov. 2024.
The law, AB 257, was hailed as groundbreaking by labor advocates as a way to improve working conditions in the fast-food industry when it wasIt would establish a council to set industrywide health and safety standards, and potentially set a fast-food minimum wage as high as $22 an hour.
The referendum, at a minimum, delays the law's implementation by more than a year. The vote won't be held until November 2024.What they're saying: The fast-food industry, which has argued the law would put restaurants out of business, and trigger more inflation, celebrated the referendum in a raft of statements.
"We’re pleased that Californians will get the chance to exercise their constitutional right to vote on this law and will continue to support the operators, small business owners, and workers that make the restaurant industry so important to our customers' lives,” Sean Kennedy, the National Restaurant Association's executive vice president for public affairs, said in a statement.
Advocates said they'll keep fighting for its passage: “Despite fast-food corporations’ efforts to distort the referendum process, we know California voters see through their tricks," Mary Kay Henry, president, Service Employees International Union, said in a statement., who make up 60% of the workforce, and who helped pass the law. It could also stymie plans for similar laws that advocates planned to introduce in other states.
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