The minimum wages of workers at larger hotels and Los Angeles International Airport would rise to $30 an hour by 2028 under a proposal put forth Wednesday by several Los Angeles City Council members.
Councilmembers Curren Price and Katy Young-Yaroslavsky introduced a motion for a city law that would boost the pay of workers at hotels with more than 60 guest rooms. Certain categories of LAX workers, including security officers and janitors, would also be covered.
The motion was seconded by Councilmembers Heather Hutt, Tim McOsker, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Hugo Soto-Martinez.
Price, who chairs the city’s committee on economic development, told reporters Wednesday that hotels and airplanes are “filling” up as the pandemic eases. The vast majority of people that would see their wages rise under the proposed law are people of color, he said.
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“This is a matter of human rights,” Price said. “It’s a matter of being fair.”
Two existing laws passed by the City Council require larger hotels to pay more than $18 an hour to workers, higher than the city’s minimum wage of $16.04.
This latest proposal is meant to consolidate those two ordinances.
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