What's stupid about the law? Do you perhaps have experience in hospitality in the LA area and/or can help illuminate the situation for us, so as to try to persuade us of your opinion?
Here's a summary of the ordinance for anyone who's not familiar:
Doesn't seem that stupid to me as a layperson, reading through it. I'm curious what you see at issue here.
There's even a one-year waiver available for financial hardship, and it appears some or all of the protections could be waived under a collective bargaining agreement.
A bit of online research suggests that hotel staff that were sexually harassed/assaulted at work and subsequently not taken seriously by their management, or not allowed to file a police report on 'company time', were primary originators of the push for this ordinance.
The rest of the law focuses on things like: any work over 10 hours in one day is voluntary. Hmm, I wonder why that is necessary?
It doesn't seem like a tax. You wouldn't call a state government requiring a car to meet some minimum safety requirement a tax, right? At least to the best of my knowledge, no automaker has ever done an "airbag tax".
It's just a political ploy to garner some ill will against regulators and make a few bucks in the process. Seems pretty genius (in a nefarious way) to me.
If you look into it the primary intent of the ordinance is to ensure hotel workers can get help fast if they are assaulted in the course of their job, and the secondary intent is to prevent them from being overworked without consent.
Which makes this ploy especially distasteful in my eyes - bit of a "the city made us make your servants feel safe and valued at work" fee.
Here's a summary of the ordinance for anyone who's not familiar:
https://wagesla.lacity.org/sites/g/files/wph1941/files/2022-...
And what I think is the full text:
https://wagesla.lacity.org/sites/g/files/wph1941/files/2022-...
Doesn't seem that stupid to me as a layperson, reading through it. I'm curious what you see at issue here.
There's even a one-year waiver available for financial hardship, and it appears some or all of the protections could be waived under a collective bargaining agreement.