California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increase

Pizza Hut is laying off more than 1,200 delivery drivers in California.

The layoffs, which will take place through the end of February, come as California's minimum wage is about to go up by $4. Fast-food workers in the state are set to get a pay bump of close to 30% in April as the minimum wages rises from $16 to $20 an hour.

PacPizza, LLC, operating as Pizza Hut, said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice that the company made a business decision to eliminate first-party delivery services and, as a result, the elimination of all delivery driver positions, according to Business Insider. The notice was filed with the state's Employment Development Department.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers to give notice of mass layoffs or plant closures.

Southern California Pizza Co., a second Pizza Hut franchise, is also eliminating its in-house delivery services and laying off 841 drivers, according to a WARN Act notice from Dec 1.

The layoffs impact drivers at Pizza Hut locations in Sacramento, Palm Springs, Los Angeles and other cities throughout the state.

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justanothername · 51-55, M

This is where minimum wage payment increases designed to rise in line with cost of living increases clash with what employers are willing to pay their lowest paid staff on the pay roll.
News flash!
America is not the only place that at happens.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@justanothername Well, kindly old joe biden brought on this inflation, time that kindly old joe biden does something to fix it

justanothername · 51-55, M

@sunsporter1649 So how do you think that nasty inflation got started?
That nasty thing called Covid 19 that Trump let into the country when he was POTUS that caused the US govt to hand out billions in welfare payments US citizens to allow them to feed themselves when they couldn’t work?

I don’t care if you think Covid was manufactured or imagined. It is still part of the root cause of the inflation that most countries are now dealing with.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@justanothername Of course, tripling the cost of fuel had nothing to do with it, right?

justanothername · 51-55, M

@sunsporter1649 Rather deflect than accept responsibility for Covid huh.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@justanothername We know, the kindly old joe biden administration blames the Trump administration for the kindly old joe biden administration

justanothername · 51-55, M

@sunsporter1649 good old sport eh, deflect, project, deny, deflect, project, deny.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@justanothername You mean tripling the cost of fuel had nothing to do with it?

justanothername · 51-55, M

@sunsporter1649 I mean Covid got it started. The US is not the only country in the world to suffer from high gas prices after Covid.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@justanothername And kindly old joe biden, by knifing the oil industry, had nothing to do with it, right?