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The Buzz, An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 83: Duane Parrish, S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism
Labor & Employment Symposium - Topics: Investigations into Sexual Harassment Allegations; State and Local Law Update
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Pennsylvania Tavern Games Licenses
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 Monday, November 4, 2024, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed the Safe Hotels Act into law. The Act imposes several new requirements on owners and operators of New York City hotels, with additional obligations for larger...more
With each decision, the courts give shape to Chapter 93A. This is Attorney Thayer’s second article on such decisions. To read his July 2023 coverage, click here. In a surprising decision that heightens potential exposure...more
Just prior to Memorial Day, the New Jersey Assembly passed legislation intending to bring more balance between hotel franchisors and franchisees. As a supplement to the New Jersey Franchise Practices Act, the new legislation...more
Employers in California are faced with a myriad of complex federal and state laws. It does not stop there. An employer with employees working in the City of Oakland may also need to comply with local ordinances....more
Under a New York City law, hotels with at least 100 rooms that either (1) experienced a mass layoff of 75% or more of their workforce or (2) were closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, but have not reopened to the...more
The pandemic has hit New York City’s hotels particularly hard, leading to perhaps the industry’s worst year ever in 2020. Despite these incredibly difficult times, however, Mayor de Blasio signed into law on October 5, 2021 a...more
In follow up to the New York City Department of City Planning’s (DCP), January 22nd, public hearing on the Draft Scope of Work for the City’s proposed Hotel Special Permit text amendment, there were several speakers both in...more
New York City Council passed legislation on September 23, 2020, that would significantly affect New York City hotels and possibly restaurants and other food outlets and retail stores within a hotel property. The legislation...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order requiring “all transitory hotels, motels, inns, dwellings offered for ‘short term rental’” to inquire whether guests have traveled from a state...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Superintendent of the State Police Colonel Patrick Callahan (who also acts as the State Director of Emergency Management) issued orders this week lifting some closures and reiterating or...more
As Super Bowl fans arrive in the Miami area, final preparations are underway from Hard Rock Stadium to Bayfront Park to the Miami Beach Convention Center, and everywhere in between. But it’s the progress over the past decade...more
Q: I operate a hotel in New Jersey and heard New Jersey law now requires me to provide panic devices to certain hotel employees. What do I need to know? ...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
Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 11, 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a law requiring covered hotels to provide “panic devices” to employees engaged in “housekeeping or room service duties.” The law further imposes...more
Over the last few days, we’ve been sending you updates on the key provisions of SB75, the anti-harassment legislation awaiting approval by Governor Pritzker. Previously, we wrote about the Workplace Transparency Act. In this...more
Washington Governor Jay Inslee recently signed two bills addressing sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. Both bills require covered hospitality employers and adult entertainment establishments to provide panic...more
Short-Term Rentals Continue to Gain Market Share - ("Booking Holdings breaks down private accommodation revenues for first time, now at 20% of total," Phocuswire, Feb 27, 2019) Alternative accommodations, including...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 3, 2018, the New Jersey Senate Labor Committee unanimously advanced a bill that would require covered hotels to provide “panic devices” to certain employees. New Jersey joins the increasing...more
The enactment in October of a shared housing surcharge in Chicago and a new tax on online bookings in Pennsylvania both will have an impact on the hotel industry. Chicago’s Shared Housing Surcharge- The City of Chicago...more
Senate Bill 970 was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown and applies exclusively to all hotels and motels with employees in California....more
On July 1, 2018, the newly implemented Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Program (MIPP) regulation took effect....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
Seyfarth Synopsis: This past week, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board approved a new regulation that will require hotels and other lodging establishments (such as resorts and bed and breakfast inns) to implement new requirements...more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed language in his budget amending the definition of a “Hotel” under the state Alcoholic Beverage Control (“ABC”) Law Section 3(14) to eliminate the requirement for hotels to have a...more