Fast-food workers will make $20 an hour in California. Here's why Panera Bread was exempted from the new law.

• A new California law increases the hourly wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour in April 2024.
• But a quirky exemption for restaurants that make and sell bread like Panera Bread are exempted.
• "That's part of the sausage-making," California Governor Gavin Newsom said about the exemption.

Starting next April, 557,000 fast-food workers in California will get a nearly 30% pay increase to $20 an hour at 30,000 restaurants in the state.