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Economy
Pizza Hut To Lay Off Over 1,200 Workers In California As State Raises Fast Food Minimum Wage To $20 An Hour
2023-12-28
[WIRE] More than 1,200 Pizza Hut delivery drivers throughout California will be out of a job in the coming months after California’s fast food minimum wage increase.

Numerous Pizza Hut franchises in California announced they would eliminate delivery driver positions and rely on third-party delivery companies such as DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats as the state’s minimum wage for fast food workers will increase to $20 in April, CBS News reported. The layoffs, which will start in February, will mostly affect Pizza Hut delivery drivers in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties.

One delivery driver told Business Insider last week that he was offered $400 severance pay if he worked until February 5 — the date Pizza Hut told him he would be laid off.

"The money they are giving us as severance pay is a slap on the face," the Pizza Hut employee said. "It comes to $3 a month for nine-plus years of service."
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  ^ except even slave owners had to pay for the food, clothes and shelter of their 'property'. Now they simply shift that cost to the general taxpayers in various 'social programs'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-28 11:16  

#11  natures minimum wage = 0.00
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-28 10:40  

#10  "If you still had your job, you'd be making $20/hr."

Um, less taxes, of course...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-28 10:04  

#9  "If you still had your job, you'd be making $20/hr. How exciting for you!"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-28 09:53  

#8  Soviet Central Planning strikes again. Don't we feel virtuous!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-28 09:04  

#7  The drivers will still be there dashing instead. PizzaHut simplifies their business. All the pizza places will follow suit. They will also drop staff. Fast food wait times will double.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-12-28 08:16  

#6  I notice no lefty "journalist" or media organ has come forward with a glowing story of how the antisemitic "baristas" in Oakland have fared since they were cut loose.

Story in that somewhere, eh?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-28 06:59  

#5  And maybe that clown deserves a slap in the face. Unless there's some leftie mandate in California or bona fide work agreement/contract (ha), I should think that Pizza Hut doesn't have to offer any severance pay. Period.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-12-28 06:55  

#4  In the progressive sphere, choice is the pinnacle of human individuality, whether killing unborn infants or cutting off gender associated body parts.

To bring up that some choices (votes) result in bad outcomes is very unacceptable.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-28 06:37  

#3  One big fucking DUH! there. Of course raising the minimum wage will result in a rise in unemployment.

"The money they are giving us as severance pay is a slap on the face," the Pizza Hut employee said. "It comes to $3 a month for nine-plus years of service."

Let me guess: You voted for Newsom and his party every time.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-12-28 06:28  

#2  
Now all prices will reflect the wage increase and those making the new Minimum Wage will be back in the place in 3 to 4 months.

However, it does serve as a good example of the real cause of the problem.

Which is, Government, playing politics with the economy for votes.

Posted by: NN2N1   2023-12-28 05:50  

#1  Marvel at my predictive powers: Pizza Hut will still deliver - but the delivery men won't speak English very well.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-28 02:22  

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