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Since 1932, the Hotel Association of Los Angeles (HALA) has been the leading voice of the hotel industry. HALA is sponsoring a complimentary two hour webinar titled “ Understanding the City of Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance”. BRGS lawyers Richard Rosenberg and Charles H.W. Foster will lead this important discussion. The webinar will take place on July 19th at 11 am (Pacific Time). Click here to register. We hope to see you there.
Background. Last week, Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti signed the City of Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance. The new ordinance goes into effect on August 12th. Fashioned after similar ordinances passed in West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Long Beach, the ordinance imposes new onerous compliance obligations on hotels operating in the City and authorizes huge financial penalties and damage lawsuits for noncompliance. Key provisions include new severe daily workload limitations for room attendants, required daily room sanitizing and cleaning, mandatory provision of personal security devices (e.g., "panic buttons") and training, new time off requirements for certain employees, severe overtime limitations, the expansion of existing hotel minimum wage requirements to smaller hotels and onerous recordkeeping requirements. The new ordinance applies to union and non-union hotels alike, but does allow for union hotels to seek a waiver from the union of some of these new requirements.
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