Over the last two years, millions of workers have quit their jobs in search of greater pay and better treatment. For workers in the restaurant industry who were at the forefront of the Great Resignation, California Governor Gavin Newsom may have a solution that could incentivize them to stay.
Governor Newsom signed the FAST Recovery Act, or FAST Act, into law on Sept. 5, in an effort to improve wages, training and health and safety conditions for fast food workers in the state. Going into effect January 2023, the FAST Act will establish a 10-member Fast Food Council with the power to set industry-wide employment standards, essentially unionizing California’s 556,000 fast food workers under one law.
