California Restaurant Owners Collecting Signatures to Repeal Fast-Food Workers Law

Flags are flown at a car caravan and rally of fast-food workers and supporters for passage of Assembly Bill 257, a fast-food worker health and safety bill, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on April 16, 2021. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Fast-food restaurateurs are pushing back against a new California law aimed at establishing better pay and working conditions for thousands of workers across the state, saying it would cut jobs and raise consumer costs amid inflation.

Known as Save Local Restaurants, the coalition of franchisors and small business owners launched a campaign in September to collect 623,000 signatures by Dec. 4 to place a measure on the 2024 ballot to repeal the FAST Recovery Act, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2023.