Oakland officials claim that a Radisson Hotel in East Oakland violated a local minimum wage law by underpaying scores of workers for nearly a year. The city’s Department of Workplace and Employment Standards has ordered the Radisson to pay $404,491 to 128 workers.
A representative for the Oakland Radisson did not respond to a request for comment.
The restitution amount is the largest demand ever made by the city.
An investigation by the department found that the Radisson Hotel on Edes Avenue violated Oakland’s Hotel Minimum Wage and Humane Workload Ordinance by failing to pay workers the correct wage rates from July 2019 through April 2020, according to a letter city officials sent to the hotel Wednesday.
Oakland voters established the minimum wage law when they Measure Z in 2018. This measure also established the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards to enforce the rules in 2020.
Under the law, Oakland hotels must pay their employees at least $15 per hour with health benefits, or $20 per hour if they work without benefits. The city audited the Radisson’s records and found that the hotel had underpaid 128 employees who were working for the minimum wage without benefits.
Department Director Emylene Aspilla, who took the reins just over a year ago, told The Oaklandside that this is the department’s largest wage determination yet.
“This took a long time, but it’s because we wanted to get it just right,” Aspilla told The Oaklandside. “We know that three years is a...
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