More than 1,100 Pizza Hut delivery drivers across the state, including hundreds based in Southern California, are being laid off in advance of a minimum wage hike for fast-food workers.
A pair of Pizza Hut franchisees are getting rid of the in-house delivery services at hundreds of locations, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications filed with the California Employment Development Department.
Employers are required to give this notice at least 60 days before any planned closures or mass layoff.
According to those filings, many of the delivery drivers will be out of a job by mid-February, just a few weeks before California’s minimum wage rises to $20 an hour for fast food workers.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1228 on Sept. 28, which boosts the average hourly wage for more than 500,000 California fast food workers in April 2024.
One of the Pizza Hut operators, Southern California Pizza Company and its affiliates, is laying off more than 400 delivery drivers in Los Angeles County alone. Pizza Hut locations in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties will also be affected.
If you want to get food delivered from any of these locations after the driver layoffs, you’ll have to rely on third-party apps such as Uber Eats, GrubHub and DoorDash.
Yum Brands, the parent company of Pizza Hut, has not responded to requests for comment from LAist.
