The Los Angeles City Council recently passed a law requiring hotel employers to comply with new wage and hour and safety requirements. The new law, called the Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance ("HWPO"), codified at section 182 of Article 2 of Chapter 28 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, is effective as of August 12 and implements significant changes that will require hotel employers, or “any person who owns, controls or operates a hotel in the City,” and their contractors to comply with the ordinance’s requirements.
Chief among these changes is an increase to the minimum wage from $18.86 per hour, up from $17.64. Notably, this increase is significant because the prior effective minimum wage only applied to hotels with 150 or more guest rooms, but now, the increased minimum wage applies to hotels with only 60 or more guest rooms.
The HWPO also limits the amount of square footage a hotel worker/room attendant can work in a day to prevent minimum wage violations. Hotels with 45-60 guest rooms can require its workers to clean no more than 4,000 square feet in day, and hotels with 60 or more guest rooms are limited to 3,500 square feet in a day. The square footage determination also depends on various factors, including whether the square footage is in one or more buildings, whether the square footage is located on two or more floors, among other factors. If these factors apply, these square foot limitations are reduced by 500 square feet. In the event an employee exceeds the...
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