“California’s statewide minimum wage is $16 per hour. Newsom signed a law last year that says fast food restaurants that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationally must pay their workers at least $20 per hour beginning April 1. But the law does not apply to restaurants that have their own bakeries to make and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item.”
Is there an explanation as to why making your own bread means minimum wage laws cannot be applied to businesses that otherwise meet these requirements?
The explanation:
Flynn has been a generous donor to Newsom’s political campaigns, including contributing $100,000 to fight a failed recall effort against the governor. Bloomberg reported that the two men attended the same high school. Flynn also acquired a resort managed by Newsom’s hospitality business in 2014, but terminated the management contract about a year after the purchase, according to the news outlet.
That is unfortunate. Absolute red meat for both-sides-are-bad politics.
Well, both sides are bad. It’s just that one side is way, way worse.
Both sides are bad.
They’re just looking out for different rich people.
People say voting 3rd party is a waste, but voting democrat just slows the loss.
Losing is still losing, lol.
people gonna find out the hard way the libertarian party is funded by psychos.
the democrats are the best that the current voting system can deliver and we should make more efforts to implement an alaska style top 4 RCV system in the future. The way you prevent corruption of elected officials is to make it very easy to vote them out.
The libertarian are psychos. The next time you meet one and you determine that they aren’t just a Republican trying to have sex with a Democrat just mention to them “age of consent laws” and watch a small part of them die.
Just saying, I never mentioned libertarians.
Ranked-choice voting would be nice, but democrats don’t support it because they’re bad people.
Absolute red meat for both-sides-are-bad politics.
Not exactly a secret that local economic interests dictate policies to career climbers in the political scene. This isn’t even a “both sides” thing. Its a “how does a democracy actually work in practice” thing. The Whigs operate like this. The UK Tories and Labour operate like this. The German Greens and the Spanish People’s Party operate like this. Its the baseline of liberal democracy the world over.
Yeah…
He’s a neoliberal and gets donations from Panera…
Cali should be full of progressives. But there’s lots of money in being an incumbent in a seat the other party can’t win.
Hell, Pelosi and AIPAC just got another I to the Senate. He’ll keep taking donor money well after Pelosi is buried, and preventing a candidate that agrees with Cali voters from taking that seat for decades.
It can’t change till we get them out of power in the Dem party, but we can’t compete with their do ors money in a primary.
These days were lucky if we even get a primary.
Shit needs to change while it’s still able to change
We need money out of politics.
Money is always been and will always be the problem.
Subway must be stoked. They don’t have to raise pay, and Panera is getting all the heat.
Anyone that voluntarily eats at Subway was probably a lost cause to begin with.
Nice meme.
I can tell you can think for yourself.
Nice sarcasm. I can tell you have a favourite subway sandwich.
So? Lol.
Subway sandwiches are pretty damn disappointing. People commonly say that for a real reason.
I say this as someone who used to work in a part of town that had two walkable options for lunch. 1) the office refrigerator, or 2) subway. I ate a lot of subway when I was too lazy to brown bag it. Having sampled that entire shitty menu, I can confidently say that place makes the saddest sandwich in town.
People commonly say that for a real reason.
Yeah, it’s because most people can’t think for themselves and just want to fit in with others.
I see it all the time.
If my dog could talk, this is what she would tell me after she ate cat shit.
Doesn’t matter, I won’t eat at Panera any more.
Because of this or because it’s like 50% more expensive than it has any right to be?
Yes
This particular melodrama has the potential to intersect with current hysteria over immigration, in some exceptionally sensational ways. Since The 90s, Panera chains in SoCal have increasingly been staffed and run by Vietnamese nationals new to The US. And the “beef” in their sandwiches has been tasting more and more similar housecat, with each passing year
How many housecats do you have to eat before your palette becomes refined enough to discern the flavor?
I was almost always the one swiping kittens from the little girls in my neighborhood, beheading them with an axe, then frying them up for dinner. Never had to develop a taste for flesh of this sort
Love the way in which he speaks as if his complying with the law is OPTIONAL for him
Well, it is, because newsom got an exception for restaurants with a standalone “bread” menu item and some caveats that basically made it only apply to Panera Bread.
(Incidentally, This is the essence how the whole federal tax codes and tariff schedules work)
Crony Capitalism at it’s most vile. Almost leads one to grieve Larry Elder’s defeat during the last election
The whole system is set up to prevent leaders who are good for the people from winning (primaries specifically, the only candidates who do well are those that corporate interests approve of). So you know we end up with a mix of bickering over inconsequential nonsense and people trying to convince us that giving up our liberties is actually good for us, to keep us away from what actually matters.
More simple explanation: So few people take part in local politics, the most base of our citizenry end up in office
Seems like a win for workers to me.
I’d like to hear from some of the Panera Bread employees about what type of boss Flynn is.
Win for Panera employees, loss for literally everyone else because it’s so thoroughly normalized for politicians to narrowly tailor laws to favor friends that such a high profile incident is not even raising any flags in political circles.
