California’s $20 minimum wage is official. Now some fast-food workers say their hours are being cut

Two workers talk about the fight for a higher minimum wage, and the changes they’ve seen since its implementation on April 1.

Laura Reyes was in the middle of her shift as a cook at Burger King in San Jose, when she started feeling a sharp pain in her abdomen and lower back. As the day went on, Reyes started bleeding, and the pain became so severe that she felt like she might die. She had asked more than once if she could leave work, but her managers would not allow it. “I was really worried,” she told Fast Company through a translator. “In that moment, I didn’t know I was pregnant.”