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"content": "\u003cp>Cristina Cortez keeps two fuzzy blankets and pillows in her car to nap during lunch breaks in the parking lot of the hospital where she works. On a recent afternoon, she opened her trunk to reveal instant ramen packages, a gym bag with clean clothes and soft plush toys her kids gave her so she wouldn’t feel alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of three doesn’t have enough time to sleep, see her family or cook meals because she commutes, often seven days a week, between two demanding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/health-care\">health care\u003c/a> jobs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What hurts me the most, is being away from my family, having to do that with the cost of everything. It’s just so expensive,” said Cortez, 44, a Los Banos resident who starts work as a dialysis technician at 4:30 a.m. in Gilroy, 30 miles south of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She picks shifts up as a medical assistant at a hospital emergency room in the afternoons or overnight in nearby Hollister, where she was raised. She’s trying to make enough money to afford to move her family back there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been really, really hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, organizes items in her trunk outside Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024. Due to working double shifts and having a long commute, Cortez carries a blanket and pillow to nap in her car, noodles for when she doesn’t have time for lunch, and two stuffed animals given to her by her children that remind her of them. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortez is one of hundreds of thousands of health care workers expected to see paycheck raises thanks to a California law that went into effect Wednesday. After months of delays, the mandated minimum wage increase, the first in the United States to target the health care industry, aims to alleviate workforce shortages and improve patient care. The raises could help health employers recruit and retain workers in often tough, frontline jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">law\u003c/a> requires most health care employers to gradually boost their lowest wage to reach $25 an hour in the coming years. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Health-Care-Worker-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm\">phased-in schedule\u003c/a>, large health systems must pay at least $25 an hour by mid-2026. Smaller ones will have more time to increase the pay of nursing assistants, pharmacy technicians, janitors, receptionists and other positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a well-deserved increase,” said Tia Orr, executive director of the Service Employees International Union California, which sponsored SB 525. “This is going to prove to be more beneficial for patients, more beneficial for California, and hugely beneficial to the workers who sacrifice their lives literally every single day to provide us the health care that we all need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 350,000 health care employees, most of them people of color and women, are projected to see an annual average increase of $6,400 in the first year of the policy, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/california-health-care-minimum-wage-new-estimates-february-2024.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Labor Center. In earlier estimates, the labor center calculated up to 426,000 people would be impacted, but that figure included workers at skilled nursing facilities who are currently not covered by the law, according to Laurel Lucia, who directs the center’s health care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007150/californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-sees-no-job-loss-slight-price-hikes\">mandates most fast-food employers\u003c/a> pay at least $20 an hour. Fast food, as well as the retail industry, often compete with health care for workers, said Bianca Frogner, who directs the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Washington School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives health care maybe a fighting chance against other industries that might be raising wages and are competing for workers,” Frogner, a health economist, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, displays a Dialysis Workers United sticker on her shirt of Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024, where she and fellow health care workers were protesting unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 525 last fall, with an original implementation date of June 1. However, Newsom and lawmakers agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992165/why-the-budget-deal-delaying-the-health-care-minimum-wage-hike-is-not-as-big-as-you-might-think\">defer the measure twice\u003c/a> due to concerns that costs would exacerbate a state budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez said she was crushed by the delays and kept checking social media for updates from the governor on whether the Oct. 16 implementation date would stick. Earning more at her dialysis job, she said, will allow her to spend time with her children. She said she might cry when she finally sees a paycheck from her employer, Satellite Healthcare, reflecting the raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going from $20 to $23 from one month to the next is, like, to me winning a lotto because, yeah, it’s $3, but that’s going to make a big difference for me and my family,” Cortez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, speaks with a colleague outside of Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024, where she and fellow health care workers were protesting unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A long list of health care employers initially opposed the measure because they worried about how to pay for it. Some said that raising their wage floor could lead to cuts in jobs or services. But many ended up supporting the bill — or withdrew their opposition — after weighing in on amendments that gave them additional time to adjust to a more expensive payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most research on minimum wage increases shows they do not lead to big job losses, as opponents often argue. Some health care employers may initially reduce hours or lay off employees, but those measures will likely be temporary, according to Frogner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that in the long run, as they see the phased-in approach of wages, that they can build that into their plan, into the future,” she said. “So it might be a very short-term challenge for a long-term gain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has already had a big impact on some workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, organizes the extra uniform in her trunk outside Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scripps Health, which provides a significant amount of free or discounted medical care at its four hospitals and dozens of outpatient centers in San Diego, adjusted pay for more than half of its nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.scripps.org/about-us/who-we-are\">17,000 employees\u003c/a>, spokesperson Steve Carpowich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 700 of those workers earned below the now required $23 an hour for large health employers, but Scripps also raised wages for others to “ensure fair pay and equity.” The move will cost Scripps about $20 million in the first year of the law’s implementation, Carpowich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scripps having to absorb the cost of this unfunded mandate comes against a backdrop of serious financial challenges for health systems,” he said in a statement. “These include government and commercial insurance payers whose reimbursements often don’t cover the cost of the care we provide; increased costs for supplies, pharmaceuticals and energy; and other unfunded government mandates, like SB 1953, the Seismic Safety Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007779 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large medical systems that serve more patients with private health insurance might have an easier time negotiating for higher rates to cover costs, according to Frogner and other health workforce experts. Community health centers, by comparison, rely heavily on more fixed reimbursements from Medi-Cal, the state’s public health insurance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, community and rural health clinics may apply to delay having to raise their wage floor. The Department of Industrial Relations, which issues the waivers, did not immediately respond to questions about how many clinics have applied for or received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration is considering changes to Medi-Cal rates as part of the budget process, but updates won’t be known until January, said H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson with the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its latest estimate, the department calculated the law would cost the state $1.4 billion in its first year and more later on, including higher Medi-Cal reimbursements for providers and wage hikes for about 26,000 state employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Thompson, chief human resources officer at Clinica Sierra Vista, said the organization is dedicated to providing affordable health care to its primarily low-income patients in Fresno and Kern counties. To stay afloat, the community clinic, which started paying hundreds of its employees at least $21 per hour in May, hopes the state will increase Medi-Cal service rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not able to increase prices, nor do we want to,” Thompson said. “We do expect payments eventually to match the financial pressures that we are seeing. However, immediate state financial support is crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She picks shifts up as a medical assistant at a hospital emergency room in the afternoons or overnight in nearby Hollister, where she was raised. She’s trying to make enough money to afford to move her family back there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been really, really hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, organizes items in her trunk outside Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024. Due to working double shifts and having a long commute, Cortez carries a blanket and pillow to nap in her car, noodles for when she doesn’t have time for lunch, and two stuffed animals given to her by her children that remind her of them. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortez is one of hundreds of thousands of health care workers expected to see paycheck raises thanks to a California law that went into effect Wednesday. After months of delays, the mandated minimum wage increase, the first in the United States to target the health care industry, aims to alleviate workforce shortages and improve patient care. The raises could help health employers recruit and retain workers in often tough, frontline jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">law\u003c/a> requires most health care employers to gradually boost their lowest wage to reach $25 an hour in the coming years. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Health-Care-Worker-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm\">phased-in schedule\u003c/a>, large health systems must pay at least $25 an hour by mid-2026. Smaller ones will have more time to increase the pay of nursing assistants, pharmacy technicians, janitors, receptionists and other positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a well-deserved increase,” said Tia Orr, executive director of the Service Employees International Union California, which sponsored SB 525. “This is going to prove to be more beneficial for patients, more beneficial for California, and hugely beneficial to the workers who sacrifice their lives literally every single day to provide us the health care that we all need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 350,000 health care employees, most of them people of color and women, are projected to see an annual average increase of $6,400 in the first year of the policy, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/california-health-care-minimum-wage-new-estimates-february-2024.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Labor Center. In earlier estimates, the labor center calculated up to 426,000 people would be impacted, but that figure included workers at skilled nursing facilities who are currently not covered by the law, according to Laurel Lucia, who directs the center’s health care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007150/californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-sees-no-job-loss-slight-price-hikes\">mandates most fast-food employers\u003c/a> pay at least $20 an hour. Fast food, as well as the retail industry, often compete with health care for workers, said Bianca Frogner, who directs the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Washington School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives health care maybe a fighting chance against other industries that might be raising wages and are competing for workers,” Frogner, a health economist, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-28-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, displays a Dialysis Workers United sticker on her shirt of Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024, where she and fellow health care workers were protesting unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 525 last fall, with an original implementation date of June 1. However, Newsom and lawmakers agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992165/why-the-budget-deal-delaying-the-health-care-minimum-wage-hike-is-not-as-big-as-you-might-think\">defer the measure twice\u003c/a> due to concerns that costs would exacerbate a state budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez said she was crushed by the delays and kept checking social media for updates from the governor on whether the Oct. 16 implementation date would stick. Earning more at her dialysis job, she said, will allow her to spend time with her children. She said she might cry when she finally sees a paycheck from her employer, Satellite Healthcare, reflecting the raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going from $20 to $23 from one month to the next is, like, to me winning a lotto because, yeah, it’s $3, but that’s going to make a big difference for me and my family,” Cortez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Cortez, a dialysis technician, speaks with a colleague outside of Satellite Healthcare in Gilroy on Oct. 16, 2024, where she and fellow health care workers were protesting unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A long list of health care employers initially opposed the measure because they worried about how to pay for it. Some said that raising their wage floor could lead to cuts in jobs or services. But many ended up supporting the bill — or withdrew their opposition — after weighing in on amendments that gave them additional time to adjust to a more expensive payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most research on minimum wage increases shows they do not lead to big job losses, as opponents often argue. 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"content": "\u003cp>As California considered and then mandated a minimum wage raise at most fast-food restaurants, opponents warned the controversial legislation could be a job killer. On Tuesday, before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001032/at-dnc-roll-call-california-shines-as-harris-seals-nomination\">appearing at the Democratic National Convention\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted new employment data pointing to a different picture: a growing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quick-service restaurants have consistently added thousands of jobs every month this year in California, reaching a record employment total of 750,500 in July, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25054159-seriesreport-20240820150338_c0f56c\">preliminary data\u003c/a> released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures show 11,000 additional fast-food jobs since April, when the wages were hiked to at least $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s good for workers is good for business, and as California’s fast food industry continues booming every single month, our workers are finally getting the pay they deserve,” Newsom said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/08/20/icymi-after-raising-minimum-wage-california-has-more-fast-food-jobs-than-ever-before/\">a statement\u003c/a>. “Despite those who pedaled lies about how this would doom the industry, California’s economy and workers are again proving them wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s comments are the latest salvo in the closely watched \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Fast-Food-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm\">wage bump\u003c/a> for hundreds of thousands of fast-food employees. Newsom signed the increase into law last September. The legislation also created a first-of-its-kind Fast Food Council that allows workers to participate in the development of job standards. The council’s nine voting members can increase the hourly minimum wage by up to 3.5% annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the state law, which only applies to chains with more than 60 stores nationwide, argue that employers have cut employee hours and jobs to cope with more expensive payroll costs. They argue that a separate BLS jobs data set is more reliable because it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/topic/seasonal-adjustment.htm\">adjusted for seasonal\u003c/a> economic influences, and it shows gains of just hundreds of jobs in the industry since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of California’s fast-food employees are adult women of color who previously made close to $16 an hour, the state’s general minimum wage, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Increasing their ability to afford food, rent and other basics will improve their family’s lives and decrease reliance on taxpayer-funded aid programs, the law’s proponents argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists contacted by KQED agreed that more evidence is needed to assess the full impact of the wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich, who chairs the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, said that higher wages could attract more workers to fast-food jobs, which traditionally have high turnover rates. He believes the job figures celebrated by the governor represent the best evidence yet that the industry is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11991314 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think minimum wage (increases) kill jobs; I think they kill job vacancies,” Reich said. “When the minimum wage goes up, more workers are attracted to those jobs and they are more likely to stay in them. The numbers do show that wages can be much higher, and yet the business can do well, and workers can do well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich’s preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CAs-fast-food-MW-early-evidence.pdf\">research\u003c/a> suggests that McDonald’s restaurants increased hamburger prices by less than 2% in California after the minimum wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most fast-food restaurant owners are franchisees who pay large corporations such as Wendy’s or Taco Bell to represent their brand. A spokesperson with the International Franchise Association, a trade group representing fast-food franchisees and franchisors, said the net job data is misleading. The organization, which fought the raise, has warned that it would hurt small business owners, workers and consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day you see headlines of restaurant closures, employee job losses and hours cut, and rising food prices for consumers,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Local restaurant owners in California are already struggling to cope with the $20/hour wage, as the Fast Food Council considers additional wage increases. All the while, workers and consumers are feeling the pinch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebekah Paxton, research director for the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit research organization funded partly by the restaurant industry, said seasonally adjusted employment bureau figures reflect a more reliable picture. According to that \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU06000007072259001SA\">BLS data\u003c/a>, fast-food jobs decreased statewide by 2,700 between January and July but increased by about 400 since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paxton pointed to her organization’s \u003ca href=\"https://epionline.org/studies/crisis-in-california/#:~:text=A%20majority%20of%20restaurants%20say,or%20consolidated%20positions%20(70%25).\">recent survey\u003c/a> of more than 180 fast-food operators in California, which found most have trimmed staff and cut employee hours while raising consumer prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is certainly not the rosy picture that the governor is portraying,” Paxton said. “Fast-food restaurant employment is stagnating and even going down. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think minimum wage (increases) kill jobs; I think they kill job vacancies,” Reich said. “When the minimum wage goes up, more workers are attracted to those jobs and they are more likely to stay in them. The numbers do show that wages can be much higher, and yet the business can do well, and workers can do well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich’s preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CAs-fast-food-MW-early-evidence.pdf\">research\u003c/a> suggests that McDonald’s restaurants increased hamburger prices by less than 2% in California after the minimum wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most fast-food restaurant owners are franchisees who pay large corporations such as Wendy’s or Taco Bell to represent their brand. A spokesperson with the International Franchise Association, a trade group representing fast-food franchisees and franchisors, said the net job data is misleading. The organization, which fought the raise, has warned that it would hurt small business owners, workers and consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day you see headlines of restaurant closures, employee job losses and hours cut, and rising food prices for consumers,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Local restaurant owners in California are already struggling to cope with the $20/hour wage, as the Fast Food Council considers additional wage increases. All the while, workers and consumers are feeling the pinch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebekah Paxton, research director for the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit research organization funded partly by the restaurant industry, said seasonally adjusted employment bureau figures reflect a more reliable picture. According to that \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU06000007072259001SA\">BLS data\u003c/a>, fast-food jobs decreased statewide by 2,700 between January and July but increased by about 400 since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paxton pointed to her organization’s \u003ca href=\"https://epionline.org/studies/crisis-in-california/#:~:text=A%20majority%20of%20restaurants%20say,or%20consolidated%20positions%20(70%25).\">recent survey\u003c/a> of more than 180 fast-food operators in California, which found most have trimmed staff and cut employee hours while raising consumer prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is certainly not the rosy picture that the governor is portraying,” Paxton said. “Fast-food restaurant employment is stagnating and even going down. There’s a trend that is getting worse as this minimum wage policy continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some job losses, the new minimum wage has not materialized the catastrophic impacts on employment opponents predicted so far, said John Logan, the director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it’s good news for supporters of the legislation. There’s no evidence of a disastrous impact on jobs,” Logan said. “In fact, the signs seem to be that the California fast food sector is continuing to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California touted a victory for working people in 2016 when it enacted a sweeping series of minimum hikes, making sure the lowest-wage workers would earn at least $15 an hour by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Gov. Jerry Brown, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-jerry-brown-signs-minimum-wage-20160404-story.html\">signing the law\u003c/a>, spoke of “giving people their due,” then-Senate leader Kevin de León said in Spanish of making it possible to achieve the American dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California voters are being asked to boost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm\">statewide minimum wage\u003c/a> again, just two years after the landmark $15 wage championed by unions and embraced by Democratic politicians nationwide took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/prop-32-minimum-wage/\">Proposition 32\u003c/a> — the measure to raise the minimum wage to $18 next year — was confirmed for Californians’ ballots in November, it wasn’t with the same fanfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a lot has changed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The current law came with boosts tied to inflation, which has pulled the statewide minimum wage steadily up to $16 this year — and which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8.1.2024-Minimum-Wage-Increase-Director-of-Finance-Determination-and-Certification-CC.pdf\">will bump it up to $16.50\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The skyrocketing cost of living has prompted local officials in more than two dozen cities to enact their own faster-growing minimum wages since 2016. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/inventory-of-us-city-and-county-minimum-wage-ordinances/#s-2\">40 cities and counties have a higher minimum wage\u003c/a> than the state. Most are in the Bay Area or Los Angeles County, covering an estimated one-third of California’s low-wage workers. Several are already above $18 or just one inflationary bump away.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Unions in California took a different approach. They’ve won industry-specific wage floors for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">fast food\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/health-care-minimum-wage-raises/\">health care\u003c/a>, and, in some cities, hotels that are well above the statewide minimum. Fast food workers, who got a raise to a minimum of $20 in April, are seeking an inflationary bump for next year. In Los Angeles, hotel and airport workers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-minimum-wage-2/\">demanding a $25 minimum wage\u003c/a> and a raise to $30 in time for the 2028 Olympics.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many low-wage workers received more amid a tight labor market during the pandemic, marking the first economic recovery in two decades in which they got raises \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/what-you-dont-know-about-low-wage-workers-in-california/\">faster than higher-wage workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This year in the Legislature, business and labor groups focused on other fights, and it was uncertain whether the measure would even stay on the ballot. Some proponents argued it wasn’t nearly ambitious enough to help the working poor afford California, where MIT researchers estimate the average single, childless adult needs $27 an hour to be “self-sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, the workers’ advocacy group One Fair Wage, asked the sponsor to pull it from the ballot in favor of advocating for a $20 wage; the organization’s president, Saru Jayaraman, said Proposition 32 is needed but only a “first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the sponsor, investor-turned-anti-poverty advocate Joe Sanberg, said he believes the measure will make a difference in workers’ lives, even he openly agrees that $18 “is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, at the point where this measure is heading to the ballot, it’s kind of underwhelming,” said Chris Tilly, a UCLA professor of urban planning who studies labor markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000113\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing red shirts hold signs and sit down outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers and Unite Here Local 11 supporters sit in during a protest at one of the main entrances to LAX airport on June 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not that workers and their advocates are uninterested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign estimates 2 million workers would still get a raise under the ballot measure — but that’s significantly fewer than the \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/irle-policy-brief/an-18-minimum-wage-for-california/\">4.8 million\u003c/a> calculated by UC Berkeley economist Michael Reich in 2022 when the measure was first proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/07/california-minimum-wage-november-ballot/\">and then delayed\u003c/a> because Sanberg missed an administrative deadline. Under the measure, the minimum wage would be $18 in January, with a delay until 2026 for employers with fewer than 26 workers.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Miranda is one worker who would benefit. The 32-year-old Pomona resident makes $16.50 an hour sorting packages and loading trailers at an Inland Empire warehouse. Rent — $1,000 a month — swallows nearly 40% of his income, and he said grocery prices have risen. To make ends meet, he spends weekends refereeing youth sports. A raise, he said, would help him with car payments and sending money to support his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Stockton retail worker Donna Bowman said she’s been left behind by the state’s raising wages for other industries. The 55-year-old works part-time nights at a Dollar General to supplement her Social Security payments and said the price of gas has forced her to cut back visits to her grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how, with the way things are right now and inflation, the government expects you to live on $16 an hour,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents are banking on that simple message to convince voters. “From the standpoint of people who are going to be voting, the question is very clear,” Sanberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Sanberg poured more than $10 million into gathering signatures for the measure in 2022, the proponents have hardly spent anything. They don’t have a campaign account after Sanberg shut it down earlier this year.[aside postID=\"news_11992472,news_11985277,news_11990750\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But organizers, including Ada Briceño, co-president of the Southern California hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 11, said the measure is naturally popular and could turn out votes for other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most powerful proponent, the California Labor Federation, which represents 2.3 million union members, isn’t yet sure how much effort it’s going to put toward passing the measure. While the federation was not involved in qualifying the measure, it endorsed it in July and plans to include it in other statewide campaign materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t know how much opposition there will be, quite honestly,” Labor Federation president Lorena Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez sees the ballot measure as a “way to move things forward” at a time when lawmakers are unlikely to take up the minimum wage. “When we jumped to $15 and did it legislatively, that was really profound,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But $18 today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure,” it makes a difference, she said, but “it’s not really a living wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black shirt prepares food in a restaurant kitchen with another man using the sink.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cook Tony Peña prepares food at El Rincon restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opposition is still organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legislative deal and a state Supreme Court ruling resolved what would have been the biggest ballot fights between business and labor — a law allowing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-workers-labor-violations-deal/\">workers to sue their bosses \u003c/a>and a ballot initiative that would have asked voters to make it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/california-taxes-supreme-court-ballot/\">more difficult to raise taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So business groups say they’re now turning their sights toward Proposition 32. Three major employers’ groups with deep pockets — the Chamber of Commerce, the California Grocers Association and the California Restaurant Association — are leading the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamber CEO Jennifer Barrera said employers will also focus on a simple message: the threat of price hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a heightened sensitivity to the impact of increasing these labor costs on businesses and what that ultimately does for the cost of living,” she said. “Our belief is that the cost of living is directly impacted when you raise these costs on businesses. There’s only so many places where they can make adjustments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That warning could resonate with voters pessimistic about an uncertain economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents point out Gov. Gavin Newsom this year, facing lower-than-expected tax revenues and a yawning budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/health-care-minimum-wage-raises/\">delayed the state’s new $25 minimum wage\u003c/a> for health care workers until the fall out of concern the state could not yet afford it. Private employers, they said, should be given the same time to adjust. Newsom has not taken a position on Proposition 32, and several spokespeople did not respond to inquiries from CalMatters in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unemployment in California is 5.2%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm\">higher than the national 4.1%\u003c/a>, and youth unemployment is worse. Business groups contend that increases in the minimum wage cause employers to offer fewer opportunities to less-experienced workers, though many economists disagree wage hikes directly lead to unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich, of UC Berkeley, last fall \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/04/fast-food-minimum-wage-research/\">published a study\u003c/a> with other academics finding the ramp-up to a $15 minimum wage in California and New York had little effect on employment in fast food and among youth — and in the post-pandemic years that industry even added jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, employers point to recent local minimum wage hikes as test cases — particularly the small, relatively wealthy community of West Hollywood, which last year set what was the nation’s highest wage floor of $19.08 and required generous paid sick leave. (This year, Emeryville surpassed that with an inflation-induced $19.36, in another display of cities leaving $18 in the rearview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood officials this year \u003ca href=\"https://weho.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&event_id=1526&meta_id=271843\">commissioned surveys\u003c/a> in which 42% of business owners said they laid off staff or cut workers’ hours, and city council members agreed to pause the next wage increase until January. Part of the city’s challenge was that business owners had to compete with employers just down the street in Los Angeles, where the minimum wage is $17.28, and Beverly Hills, which uses the state minimum of $16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Schild, owner of a West Hollywood restaurant, said the policy forced him to raise the wages of servers who were making the minimum wage but received substantial extra income in tips, leaving little room to also give raises to back-of-house staff who were making about $19 to $21. He said he eliminated three jobs, including a baker and a barista, and cut a third of the restaurant’s hours, but the business is “barely surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schild called minimum wage hikes a “misguided” decision that makes little dent in the cost of living. A wage of $18 or $19 hardly makes rent affordable in West Hollywood anyway, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the minimum wage is supposed to make sure everyone can afford rent in their area,” he said. “This is not supposed to support a family … We ought to have an environment where people can gain skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry, still recovering from pandemic-induced losses and food price inflation, is likely to make up the bulk of the pushback to the measure. Many were already shaken up by the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers that started in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be too soon to tell the actual effects of the fast food increase, though proponents and opponents have both touted monthly jobs figures at convenient times. The \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU06000007072259001SA\">latest seasonally adjusted federal employment numbers\u003c/a> — recommended by experts because the restaurant workforce typically peaks in the summer and shrinks in the winter — show California fast food jobs have dipped since a high point in January but remain close to last summer’s levels. Overall, the industry has about 20,000 more jobs than before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, stories of job cuts have spread, and some workers report having hours cut after receiving the raises. Some chains have hiked prices, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Freeman, CEO of the Sacramento-based 40-restaurant chain Jimboy’s Tacos, said he’s worried restaurants are reaching a tipping point where increasing labor costs will force them to raise prices to a level consumers can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the chain’s nearly 500 workers make $16 to $20, Freeman said. Because of its relatively smaller number of stores, Jimboy’s was not subject to the fast food wage hike. However, the restaurants still saw decreased sales, and Freeman suspects it’s because price hikes at other chains changed consumers’ habits. He estimated in his restaurants, there’s a 3% decrease in sales for every 5% increase in prices, which he said may have to happen if wages are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any price increase that we do at this point, we’re concerned about pricing ourselves out of the market,” he said. “There’s never been a time that (restaurant owners are) as worried about it as they are now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other business owners say they’re more or less prepared for a rising minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been on this path for the last several years,” said Katya Christian, co-owner of her family’s cabin-leasing resort in the Sierra Nevada. “We try to anticipate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seasonal business hires a handful of college students during the summers to maintain the property and accommodate guests. Christian pays most of them the minimum wage, and this year raised the cabin’s rates to make up for the past few years of wage hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’ll likely vote for the ballot measure, acknowledging that if it passes, her business is more able to absorb such increases because her customers can typically afford higher prices. Then, perhaps a year after a new wage kicks in, she said, she would likely raise the cabins’ rates.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California touted a victory for working people in 2016 when it enacted a sweeping series of minimum hikes, making sure the lowest-wage workers would earn at least $15 an hour by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Gov. Jerry Brown, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-jerry-brown-signs-minimum-wage-20160404-story.html\">signing the law\u003c/a>, spoke of “giving people their due,” then-Senate leader Kevin de León said in Spanish of making it possible to achieve the American dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California voters are being asked to boost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm\">statewide minimum wage\u003c/a> again, just two years after the landmark $15 wage championed by unions and embraced by Democratic politicians nationwide took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/prop-32-minimum-wage/\">Proposition 32\u003c/a> — the measure to raise the minimum wage to $18 next year — was confirmed for Californians’ ballots in November, it wasn’t with the same fanfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a lot has changed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The current law came with boosts tied to inflation, which has pulled the statewide minimum wage steadily up to $16 this year — and which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8.1.2024-Minimum-Wage-Increase-Director-of-Finance-Determination-and-Certification-CC.pdf\">will bump it up to $16.50\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The skyrocketing cost of living has prompted local officials in more than two dozen cities to enact their own faster-growing minimum wages since 2016. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/inventory-of-us-city-and-county-minimum-wage-ordinances/#s-2\">40 cities and counties have a higher minimum wage\u003c/a> than the state. Most are in the Bay Area or Los Angeles County, covering an estimated one-third of California’s low-wage workers. Several are already above $18 or just one inflationary bump away.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Unions in California took a different approach. They’ve won industry-specific wage floors for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">fast food\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/health-care-minimum-wage-raises/\">health care\u003c/a>, and, in some cities, hotels that are well above the statewide minimum. Fast food workers, who got a raise to a minimum of $20 in April, are seeking an inflationary bump for next year. In Los Angeles, hotel and airport workers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-minimum-wage-2/\">demanding a $25 minimum wage\u003c/a> and a raise to $30 in time for the 2028 Olympics.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many low-wage workers received more amid a tight labor market during the pandemic, marking the first economic recovery in two decades in which they got raises \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/what-you-dont-know-about-low-wage-workers-in-california/\">faster than higher-wage workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This year in the Legislature, business and labor groups focused on other fights, and it was uncertain whether the measure would even stay on the ballot. Some proponents argued it wasn’t nearly ambitious enough to help the working poor afford California, where MIT researchers estimate the average single, childless adult needs $27 an hour to be “self-sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, the workers’ advocacy group One Fair Wage, asked the sponsor to pull it from the ballot in favor of advocating for a $20 wage; the organization’s president, Saru Jayaraman, said Proposition 32 is needed but only a “first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the sponsor, investor-turned-anti-poverty advocate Joe Sanberg, said he believes the measure will make a difference in workers’ lives, even he openly agrees that $18 “is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, at the point where this measure is heading to the ballot, it’s kind of underwhelming,” said Chris Tilly, a UCLA professor of urban planning who studies labor markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000113\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing red shirts hold signs and sit down outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/062223-Hotel-Workers-Strike-ZS-CM-22-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers and Unite Here Local 11 supporters sit in during a protest at one of the main entrances to LAX airport on June 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not that workers and their advocates are uninterested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign estimates 2 million workers would still get a raise under the ballot measure — but that’s significantly fewer than the \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/irle-policy-brief/an-18-minimum-wage-for-california/\">4.8 million\u003c/a> calculated by UC Berkeley economist Michael Reich in 2022 when the measure was first proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/07/california-minimum-wage-november-ballot/\">and then delayed\u003c/a> because Sanberg missed an administrative deadline. Under the measure, the minimum wage would be $18 in January, with a delay until 2026 for employers with fewer than 26 workers.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Miranda is one worker who would benefit. The 32-year-old Pomona resident makes $16.50 an hour sorting packages and loading trailers at an Inland Empire warehouse. Rent — $1,000 a month — swallows nearly 40% of his income, and he said grocery prices have risen. To make ends meet, he spends weekends refereeing youth sports. A raise, he said, would help him with car payments and sending money to support his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, Stockton retail worker Donna Bowman said she’s been left behind by the state’s raising wages for other industries. The 55-year-old works part-time nights at a Dollar General to supplement her Social Security payments and said the price of gas has forced her to cut back visits to her grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how, with the way things are right now and inflation, the government expects you to live on $16 an hour,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents are banking on that simple message to convince voters. “From the standpoint of people who are going to be voting, the question is very clear,” Sanberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Sanberg poured more than $10 million into gathering signatures for the measure in 2022, the proponents have hardly spent anything. They don’t have a campaign account after Sanberg shut it down earlier this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But organizers, including Ada Briceño, co-president of the Southern California hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 11, said the measure is naturally popular and could turn out votes for other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most powerful proponent, the California Labor Federation, which represents 2.3 million union members, isn’t yet sure how much effort it’s going to put toward passing the measure. While the federation was not involved in qualifying the measure, it endorsed it in July and plans to include it in other statewide campaign materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t know how much opposition there will be, quite honestly,” Labor Federation president Lorena Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez sees the ballot measure as a “way to move things forward” at a time when lawmakers are unlikely to take up the minimum wage. “When we jumped to $15 and did it legislatively, that was really profound,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But $18 today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure,” it makes a difference, she said, but “it’s not really a living wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black shirt prepares food in a restaurant kitchen with another man using the sink.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/041624_San-Ysidro-Border-Economy_AH_CM-11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cook Tony Peña prepares food at El Rincon restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego on April 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opposition is still organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legislative deal and a state Supreme Court ruling resolved what would have been the biggest ballot fights between business and labor — a law allowing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-workers-labor-violations-deal/\">workers to sue their bosses \u003c/a>and a ballot initiative that would have asked voters to make it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/california-taxes-supreme-court-ballot/\">more difficult to raise taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So business groups say they’re now turning their sights toward Proposition 32. Three major employers’ groups with deep pockets — the Chamber of Commerce, the California Grocers Association and the California Restaurant Association — are leading the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamber CEO Jennifer Barrera said employers will also focus on a simple message: the threat of price hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a heightened sensitivity to the impact of increasing these labor costs on businesses and what that ultimately does for the cost of living,” she said. “Our belief is that the cost of living is directly impacted when you raise these costs on businesses. There’s only so many places where they can make adjustments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That warning could resonate with voters pessimistic about an uncertain economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents point out Gov. Gavin Newsom this year, facing lower-than-expected tax revenues and a yawning budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/health-care-minimum-wage-raises/\">delayed the state’s new $25 minimum wage\u003c/a> for health care workers until the fall out of concern the state could not yet afford it. Private employers, they said, should be given the same time to adjust. Newsom has not taken a position on Proposition 32, and several spokespeople did not respond to inquiries from CalMatters in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unemployment in California is 5.2%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm\">higher than the national 4.1%\u003c/a>, and youth unemployment is worse. Business groups contend that increases in the minimum wage cause employers to offer fewer opportunities to less-experienced workers, though many economists disagree wage hikes directly lead to unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich, of UC Berkeley, last fall \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/04/fast-food-minimum-wage-research/\">published a study\u003c/a> with other academics finding the ramp-up to a $15 minimum wage in California and New York had little effect on employment in fast food and among youth — and in the post-pandemic years that industry even added jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, employers point to recent local minimum wage hikes as test cases — particularly the small, relatively wealthy community of West Hollywood, which last year set what was the nation’s highest wage floor of $19.08 and required generous paid sick leave. (This year, Emeryville surpassed that with an inflation-induced $19.36, in another display of cities leaving $18 in the rearview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood officials this year \u003ca href=\"https://weho.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&event_id=1526&meta_id=271843\">commissioned surveys\u003c/a> in which 42% of business owners said they laid off staff or cut workers’ hours, and city council members agreed to pause the next wage increase until January. Part of the city’s challenge was that business owners had to compete with employers just down the street in Los Angeles, where the minimum wage is $17.28, and Beverly Hills, which uses the state minimum of $16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Schild, owner of a West Hollywood restaurant, said the policy forced him to raise the wages of servers who were making the minimum wage but received substantial extra income in tips, leaving little room to also give raises to back-of-house staff who were making about $19 to $21. He said he eliminated three jobs, including a baker and a barista, and cut a third of the restaurant’s hours, but the business is “barely surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schild called minimum wage hikes a “misguided” decision that makes little dent in the cost of living. A wage of $18 or $19 hardly makes rent affordable in West Hollywood anyway, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the minimum wage is supposed to make sure everyone can afford rent in their area,” he said. “This is not supposed to support a family … We ought to have an environment where people can gain skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry, still recovering from pandemic-induced losses and food price inflation, is likely to make up the bulk of the pushback to the measure. Many were already shaken up by the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers that started in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be too soon to tell the actual effects of the fast food increase, though proponents and opponents have both touted monthly jobs figures at convenient times. The \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU06000007072259001SA\">latest seasonally adjusted federal employment numbers\u003c/a> — recommended by experts because the restaurant workforce typically peaks in the summer and shrinks in the winter — show California fast food jobs have dipped since a high point in January but remain close to last summer’s levels. Overall, the industry has about 20,000 more jobs than before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, stories of job cuts have spread, and some workers report having hours cut after receiving the raises. Some chains have hiked prices, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Freeman, CEO of the Sacramento-based 40-restaurant chain Jimboy’s Tacos, said he’s worried restaurants are reaching a tipping point where increasing labor costs will force them to raise prices to a level consumers can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the chain’s nearly 500 workers make $16 to $20, Freeman said. Because of its relatively smaller number of stores, Jimboy’s was not subject to the fast food wage hike. However, the restaurants still saw decreased sales, and Freeman suspects it’s because price hikes at other chains changed consumers’ habits. He estimated in his restaurants, there’s a 3% decrease in sales for every 5% increase in prices, which he said may have to happen if wages are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any price increase that we do at this point, we’re concerned about pricing ourselves out of the market,” he said. “There’s never been a time that (restaurant owners are) as worried about it as they are now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other business owners say they’re more or less prepared for a rising minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been on this path for the last several years,” said Katya Christian, co-owner of her family’s cabin-leasing resort in the Sierra Nevada. “We try to anticipate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seasonal business hires a handful of college students during the summers to maintain the property and accommodate guests. Christian pays most of them the minimum wage, and this year raised the cabin’s rates to make up for the past few years of wage hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The minimum wage went up in several cities across California on Monday, just as inflation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978394/californians-face-higher-costs-for-goods-and-services-despite-slowing-inflation\">keeps elevating the prices of goods and services\u003c/a> in an already very expensive place to live. One Bay Area city, Emeryville, has raised its minimum wage to $19.36 an hour, making it the city with the highest minimum wage in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of July 1, five other cities in the Bay Area also increased their minimum wage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Alameda:\u003c/b> $17.00 an hour (previously $16.52)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Berkeley:\u003c/b> $18.67 an hour (previously $18.07)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Fremont:\u003c/b> $17.30 an hour (previously $16.80)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Milpitas:\u003c/b> $17.70 an hour (previously $17.20)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>San Francisco:\u003c/b> $18.67 an hour (previously $18.07)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, several cities also boosted their minimum wage standards, including \u003cb>Los Angeles\u003c/b> (now $17.28/hour), \u003cb>Pasadena\u003c/b> (now $17.50/hour) and \u003cb>Santa Monica\u003c/b> (now $17.27/hour). Other cities, like \u003cb>West Hollywood\u003c/b>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.weho.org/business/operate-your-business/minimum-wage\">only changed the rate for employees in the hotel industry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you work in a fast food restaurant, however, you need to be getting paid more. As of April 1, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985277/impact-of-california-fast-food-worker-wage-increase-still-too-early-to-gauge\">requires fast food restaurants with more than 60 establishments to pay employees at least $20 per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How big are the changes to local minimum wages?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the board, cities are raising the minimum wage by a small percentage. In San Francisco, for example, the jump from $18.07 to $18.67 represents a 3.3% increase. However, labor advocates say that these small increases are part of an ongoing fight for better wages and working conditions and that workers must ensure their employers follow the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage theft is when an employer withholds any kind of compensation, said Juan Villalvazo, labor rights attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, a legal aid organization in San Francisco. That can include situations where your employer continues to pay you last year’s rate, even after July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of workers in San Francisco, who should now be getting paid $18.67, he explained, “Let’s say for some reason your employer decides that they will pay you only $18.60 — that’s wage theft, right down to the last penny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even a few cents taken from your wages can make a big impact over time, Villalvazo adds. “I know it doesn’t sound like a lot, but assuming you work at least 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that’s over a thousand dollars,” he said, “I myself wouldn’t want to give up a thousand dollars.”[aside postID=news_11985277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240501-FAST-FOOD-MIN-WAGE-HIKE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']Something important to make clear: minimum wage increases apply to all jobs, with some exceptions. So it doesn’t matter if you are undocumented, working without a formal employment contract or getting paid in cash — your employer must pay you at least the minimum wage, as defined by the city or county where your job is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only exceptions are usually independent contractors or close relatives that work for a family business, among others,” Villalvazo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I make sure I’m getting paid the right amount?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Check your pay stubs. Many employers use automatic payroll services that usually keep up with minimum wage changes, but it’s still a good idea to check the listed hourly rate to make sure it doesn’t list the outdated minimum wage or any lesser amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive your wages through automatic deposit and don’t receive physical pay stubs, you can contact your human resources or payroll department — or, in much smaller business, your boss directly — and ask for your most recent pay stub to confirm that what you got in your account is correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, you can get this information yourself if your employer has a digital employee portal (the place where you can review other information, like your schedule or insurance benefits).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And something else to keep in mind: although the new minimum wage comes into effect July 1, that doesn’t mean that the check or deposit you’ll get paid on July 1 will be bigger. 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