The Employment Policies Institute said the IRLE – one of UC Berkeley’s taxpayer-funded labor research centers – was biased in its research.
A UC Berkeley research group was accused of bias in downplaying the crippling effects of California ’s $20 minimum wage on the state’s fast food industry., UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found that Gov. Gavin Newsom ’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food employees – which took effect in April – raised wages without significant job losses or menu price hikes.The Employment Policies Institute claimed UC Berkeley’s research on the impact of Gov.
The UC Berkeley study analyzed UberEats data from the two weeks before and two weeks after the minimum wage law took effect on April 1. The IRLE also found California’s fast food industry did not suffer job losses as a result of the hefty minimum wage – but the EPI said this is because the research center, along with Newsom, used inaccurate federal data.
The EPI claimed the job losses are unique to California’s fast food industry, since its full service restaurant and total employment numbers grew. Neighboring states’ fast food industries gained jobs in the same period, the EPI said. The UC Berkeley report in question is the product of the IRLE’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, an independent center whose funding does not come from unions, according to Reich.
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