Here's what you should know about California Assembly Bill 610.
Matthias Balk/Picture Alliance via Getty Images, FILE, written by Assemblymember Chris Holden to amend the Labor Code section of Assembly Bill 1228, clarifies "the scope of fast food restaurants and fast food restaurant workers covered by its terms."Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images
Among the proposed exemptions are restaurants located in office buildings or within a campus of buildings "primarily or exclusively by a single, for-profit corporation and its affiliates" that "primarily or exclusively serves employees of that corporation or its affiliates rather than the general public" and is "part of, or subject to, a concession or food service contract covering the building, group of buildings, or campus.
"Examples include fast food workers at San Francisco International Airport who have wages starting at $22.50 per hour, plus benefits," he said, speaking with ABC Sacramento affiliate KXTV. "Fast food workers at casinos who make $23 per hour, plus benefits."The exemptions have come under scrutiny from Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher, Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones and other Republican lawmakers in the state, who sent aGallagher voted no on AB 610 on Monday.
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