Understanding the New City of Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance

On July 7, Mayor Garcetti signed the City of Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance. The ordinance imposes onerous compliance obligations on hotels operating in the City and authorizes huge financial penalties and damage lawsuits for noncompliance. 

Key provisions include 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.

CHLA and HALA have invited leading hotel industry labor attorneys Richard Rosenberg, Eric Mueller and Charles H.W. Foster from Ballard Rosenberg, Golper and Savitt, LLP to break it all down and answer your questions. Don’t miss this essential briefing!

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