Fast Food Workers Are Going To Start Getting Paid The Day After Their Shifts

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The fight for fast food workers to earn a living wage is still underway. But how — and when — they get paid is already in the midst of change. A tight labor market has led some fast food restaurants to provide same-day and next-day pay in a bid to attract and retain staff, Bloomberg reported on Friday, May 15th. Beginning in June, fast food workers at eight Church’s Chicken restaurants can choose to get half of their earned pay the day after their shift. It’s a pilot program that, depending on its success, may spread to other locations in the future.

“It will give the employee the chance to get spending money quicker,” Joe Christina, Church’s CEO, told Bloomberg. “Some people just can’t wait two weeks to get paid.”

Church’s is offering the program through Instant Financial, an instant pay platform that charges no interest or fees to employees who use the service. Fast food workers will receive a notification via the Instant app after every shift and can choose to claim part of their pay. Money can be deposited onto an Instant card that works just like a debit or credit card. Funds can also be transferred to a traditional bank account or withdrawn fee-free at participating ATMs.

Instant Financial and Church’s Chicken aren’t the only companies that have teamed up to change the way fast food workers are paid.

According to The Takeout, some Taco Bell, Panera, Applebee’s, McDonald’s, and Pizza Hut locations offer a similar service called Branch.

Like Instant Financial, Branch lets users claim up to half their wages the same day they work, albeit for a $3.99 fee.

Earnin is yet another option for people who want to access their earnings almost immediately. The app has been embraced by gig economy workers, such as those who drive for Uber or DoorDash, according to Medium.

The apps are seen as an alternative to payday loans, which charge sky-high interest rates to workers who need funds to bridge a cash-flow gap in between paychecks.

Other potential benefits to same-day and next-day pay include reduced turnover among fast food workers.

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Although the chance for fast food workers to get paid so quickly is a huge step forward, low pay in the service industry is still a huge issue.

Luckily, elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have made raising the federal minimum wage a big part of their policy platforms.

Let’s hope same-day and next-day pay is just one more step toward paying service industry workers a living wage.

At the end of the day, fast-food workers deserve it. After all, they put up with a LOT.

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They really, truly do.

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