Some student workers at public universities in California earn less on campus than they would at nearby fast food joints, thanks to exemptions that at least two universities use to avoid paying local minimum wage.
Voters and politicians in California’s expensive Bay Area cities have raised their local minimum wages to help low-income residents, including a significant population of students in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.
But at least two public universities have used exemptions to avoid paying those higher wages.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/05/public-universities-dont-have-comply-california-minimum-wage-laws-some-are-and-some