SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The $25 an hour minimal wage proposed in the present day by Los Angeles Metropolis Council Member Curren Worth is a short-sighted, industry-specific mandate for political achieve, that ignores accepted residing wage insurance policies and much much less pay for lecturers and metropolis staff.
Why is it that metropolis leaders push onerous monetary burdens on our nonetheless fragile hospitality group, with out demanding related pay for Los Angeles lecturers and metropolis employees? It’s proposals like these which have led to the town’s fame as a troublesome place to do enterprise and to work. Sufficient is sufficient. LA leaders should do higher. Lynn S. Mohrfeld, President and CEO of the California Lodge & Lodging Affiliation (CHLA)
As the most important lodge house owners affiliation on this planet, AAHOA is dedicated to looking for one of the best pursuits of small, family-owned LA lodges. Rising the minimal wage can be a big hardship for our family-owned companies who care deeply about their staff. This $25 minimal wage proposal is a lose-lose scenario for all concerned. Laura Lee Blake, President and CEO of the Asian American Lodge Homeowners Affiliation
We all know LA wants a variety of help and our 500 Los Angeles lodges have all the time been there for the group. We ask that the Metropolis Council put aside this political expediency and assist your entire tourism {industry} get better from the pandemic in order that Los Angeles regain its position as a worldwide vacation spot. Heather Rozman, President and CEO of the Lodge Affiliation of Los Angeles (HALA)
In recent times, Los Angeles lodges have endured quite a few expensive burdens imposed by metropolis leaders, together with:
- Failure to guard individuals and lodge properties throughout Challenge Roomkey, through which LA lodges provided greater than 40,000 rooms, however the metropolis failed to supply protecting and much-needed psychological well being providers for unsheltered people.
- Instituted the expensive Lodge Employee Safety Ordinance final yr, which was sponsored by particular union pursuits to mandate square-footage restrictions that aren’t based mostly on security or health-related info.
- Did little to ease the burden of LA lodges who had been closed for 18 months in the course of the pandemic but paid taxes, maintained services, paid utilities, and stored paying our staff so long as we may with out having any earnings.
- Allowed an absurd measure to go on subsequent yr’s poll that can mandate lodges home unsheltered people subsequent to paying friends with a voucher program.
And now, Worth’s $30 per hour minimal means – that’s what it can grow to be by 2028 – can be a hardship for LA’s lodges, a majority of that are family-owned small companies. To remain in enterprise, they are going to be pressured to scale back prices, supply fewer providers, and not fund group actions.
The hypocrisy of this minimal wage proposal is apparent. Worth’s proposal is for lodge staff solely. But, it doesn’t cowl far much less pay for union members, lecturers, and metropolis staff.
- Final month, after a three-day strike the Los Angeles Unified College District union agreed to a minimal wage of $22.52 an hour, outpacing the Metropolis of Los Angeles and the State of California.
- UniteHere, the union supporting Worth’s proposal, presents $19.71 an hour for a grievance negotiator.
- Many Metropolis staff and Council employees members make lower than $25 an hour.
Metropolis leaders and union supporters have sought to position blame on lodges for the excessive prices and lack of housing in Los Angeles. LA lodges don’t set planning, design or development coverage. Accommodations don’t set insurance policies for unsheltered people. That position lies with elected leaders.
In regards to the California Lodge & Lodging Affiliation
The California Lodge and Lodging Affiliation is the main useful resource and advocate for California’s greater than 6,000 lodges, motels and boutique inns that make use of greater than 235,000 staff. CHLA, established in 1893, is the most important state lodging {industry} affiliation within the nation and is a associate with the American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation. For extra info, go to www.calodging.com.
