Efforts to block the law have drawn support from restaurant companies including McDonald’s. A restaurant industry group sued a group of California state officials Thursday, alleging that they plan to illegally begin implementing a new law that would set minimum hourly wages for fast-food workers. The group, including franchisee and restaurant business associations called Save Local Restaurants, said it filed the lawsuit in California Superior Court after the state’s Department of Industrial Relations informed them that the law would go into effect Jan. 1.

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