Question about my restaurants excuse

I work for a restaurant in Southern California that is one of two restaurants that are owned by the same people. However recently when the minimum wage was meant to increase, we were denied it because each restaurant has less than 26 employees. So they stated that the two were separate and didn’t need to increase minimum wage despite being named the same thing and owned by the same people. I am now sick with covid and worry I won’t get any covid pay for the same reason