As Californians start brining birds and mashing potatoes, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is again hoping to dish out meatier wages for Thanksgiving workers.
She plans to amend and revive stalled legislation guaranteeing double Thanksgiving pay so it would only apply to workers at large retail businesses that have more than 500 employees in California.
Earlier this year the Assembly rejected a version that would have covered more workers. Gonzalez said she hoped the amended version would fare better by focusing on big retailers.
“We are going to narrow it considerably to, really, what most of us will agree (are) the most egregious perpetrators of expanding this idea of working on the holidays,” Gonzalez said in an interview. “One after another of these large retailers are continuing to say it’s important for their bottom line to just be open on Thanksgiving.”
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