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Why does fast food in particular have a higher minimum wage?

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  Its part of large package of additional protections and controls adopted as a means of addressing the way that the industry, specifically large fast food chains, have, particularly, via the franchise structure, systemically evaded and been unresponsive to preexisting accountability measures for labor and worker-safety rules (which particularly came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic). The specific law is actually a government-industry-labor compromise passed this year that replaces the more expansive set that was initially adopted last year and challenged by the industry.