A California restaurant, partially owned by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is reportedly still offering some employees $16 an hour despite the state recently raising the minimum wage to $20, according to job listings.
The PlumpJack Café in Olympic Valley, California is owned by a Newsom-founded company called the PlumpJack Group. The Democratic governor notably placed his business holdings into a blind trust in 2018, prohibiting him from having a say in the restaurant’s offered wages, according to The Sacramento Bee. (RELATED: California’s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Could Spell Trouble For Public Schools)
Job listings for the restaurant were posted on multiple employment marketplace sites, such as ZipRecruiter and Indeed, offering a range of openings from ‘host’ to ‘line cook’. While some options, such as line cook or pastry cook, listed their wages starting at $22 and…
