California’s fast-food workers’ rights bill on hold until 2024 ballot

A bill that would boost wages and promises to improve working conditions for California’s fast-food workers has been put on hold until the November 2024 election when voters will decide its outcome.

Assembly Bill 257, also known as the FAST Recovery Act, was signed into law Sept. 5 by Gov. Gavin Newsom. But Save Local Restaurants — a coalition of fast-food franchisees and franchisors who oppose the measure — gathered enough signatures to place a referendum on the 2024 ballot.

The coalition, which needed 623,000 voter signatures by Dec. 4 to put the bill on hold, submitted more than 1 million. At least 712,000 were deemed valid Tuesday, Jan. 24

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