California’s fast food sector reportedly shed 18,000 jobs after the $20 minimum wage took effect in April 2024 The NBER study found a 3.2 percent decline in California fast food jobs compared to ...

California 's dramatic fast food wage hike may have backfired, according to a new economic study – wiping out an estimated 18,000 jobs across the state in just one year. The research, published ...

This annual adjustment responds to the consumer price index (CPI) and is part of the state policy to maintain the purchasing ...

Though in the same month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed California had approximately 750,000 fast food jobs, roughly 11,000 more than when the higher minimum wage law took effect.

In 2010, the then minister for finance Brian Lenihan reduced the minimum wage rate by €1 to €7.65 as part of the State's four-year recovery plan. The reduction has since been restored.