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In 2014 The Los Angeles City Council passed the Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance. At the end of May 2025, amendments were passed including a significant minimum wage increase in July 2025 to $22.50 and an hourly...more
The City of Los Angeles has put the minimum wage increase for hotel workers on hold. Certain provisions were to take effect on July 1, 2025. This decision comes after a referendum petition against the ordinance was filed...more
On July 1, 2025, minimum wage increases will go into effect in a number of cities and counties in California. To ensure compliance, employers with workers in the state should review their applicable local wage laws, post the...more
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is already bringing change to the city. On December 11, 2024, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-3 to approve a draft ordinance to amend the Living Wage Ordinance and the Hotel Worker Minimum...more
On December 11, 2024, the Los Angeles City Council voted to approve a draft ordinance proposal to increase the minimum wage in the tourism industry ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. This proposal was seemingly approved...more
After a contentious six-hour meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-3 in favor of increasing the hourly wage of approximately 23,000 hotel and LAX workers to $30. The $30 minimum wage will go into effect in by July...more
On April 7, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council proposed an ordinance to increase the minimum wage for both hotel workers and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) workers. If passed, the ordinance would raise the minimum...more
Like its neighbor City of Los Angeles, Santa Monica has local employment ordinances. However, as a popular tourist destination, Santa Monica has several ordinances pertaining to the hospitality industry that employers should...more
A new law set to take effect on August 6 will require hotels in the City of Los Angeles to implement new protections for certain hotel workers and raises the minimum wage at more hotels in the City of Los Angeles. Similar...more
Earlier today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to skip the November ballot process and instead formally approve the City of Los Angeles Hotel Workers Ordinance (also known as the “Workplace Security, Workload, Wage and...more
The City of Los Angeles, like many other major cities in the state of California, has several local employment law ordinances in effect. Employers should also be aware that the County of Los Angeles has some separate local...more
California and Los Angeles currently require covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave benefits. Effective immediately, the City of Los Angeles now requires employers that have either 500 or more...more
…With the start of the New Year, employers in the hospitality sector should prepare for new state- and local- minimum wage increases for their non-exempt employees. To help multi-jurisdictional employers easily navigate...more
For over a year, New York State employers harbored concerns that New York State would enact rules that would eliminate their ability to apply a tip credit towards the wages of employees who earn tips. ...more
Minimum wage laws can affect businesses of all sizes, whether operating nationwide, in multiple jurisdictions, or only in one state, county, or city. To help manage this challenge, below we provide a rates-only update that...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: D.C.’s newest law – the Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018 (the “Act”) – officially took effect on December 13th. ...more
The past month was full of minimum wage, tip, and overtime activity: amendments; annual rate adjustments; ballot measure battles; legal challenges; and new bills. It was a September to remember....more
The California cities of Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Los Angeles each mandate a separate minimum wage payable to hotel workers. The rates adjust annually on July 1. Below is a summary of the new rates, effective July 1,...more
There’s a new twist in the ongoing soap-opera like saga surrounding the Los Angeles Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance. The Hotel Associations that opposed the Ordinance have now dropped their two-year law suit to...more
Just when you thought it was safe to finalize and distribute those 2016 California employee handbooks...not so fast! The City of Los Angeles is now implementing its own paid sick leave law (attached to the new city minimum...more
In a narrow 5-4 decision on August 20, 2015, the Washington Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling and applied the City of SeaTac’s $15 minimum wage law to all workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport....more