The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance on June 28, 2022 that grants a variety of health and safety protections to hotel and housekeeping employees, joining neighboring jurisdictions Long Beach, Santa Monica, Glendale, and West Hollywood in extending additional safeguards to a critical segment of Los Angeles' business and tourism economies. The Workplace Security, Workload, Wage and Retention Measures for Hotel Workers, as the ordinance is called, applies to all "hotel employers" in the City of Los Angeles, defined as "any person who owns, controls, or operates a hotel in the City, and includes any person or contractor who, in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity, employs hotel workers to provide services at a hotel in conjunction with the hotel's purpose."
Slated to take effect on August 8, 2022, the ordinance imposes a wide-ranging set of obligations on employers in the hospitality industry, including but not limited to the below highlights:
Hotels can now no longer require workers to work more than 10 hours in a workday unless the worker consents in writing to do so. For the consent to be valid, the hotel must advise the worker in writing before their consent is provided that they have the option to decline to work more than 10 hours in a day without adverse action.
For each workday, employers must now maintain records containing specific data for each employee, including their rate of pay; identification of...
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