April 2025
A.B. 1228 enacted a $20 minimum wage and standards-setting council for California’s fast food industry. The law was signed in September 2023 and went into effect starting April 1, 2024. Soon after Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of the law, restaurants, customers, and employees alike began bracing for its impacts, even before April. Headlines broke as early as October 2023 following the signing, in which operators…