Minimum Wage, Hospitality Industry, Airports

L.A Hotel Worker Wage Ordinance Faces Referendum Challenge

Stokes Wagner on 7/7/2025

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

From Traffic to Tourism: Los Angeles Seeks to Hike Wages Ahead of the Olympics

Littler on 12/18/2024

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

LA City Council Approves $30 Minimum Wage for Hotel and LAX Workers

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 12/16/2024

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

Los Angeles City Council Proposes Minimum Wage Increase for Hotel and LAX Workers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/21/2023

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

Washington Supreme Court Extends Minimum Wage

Fisher Phillips on 8/27/2015

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

Airline Industry Alert: Washington State Supreme Court Finds SeaTac Ordinance Increasing Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour Enforceable...

FordHarrison on 8/24/2015

In a 5-4 decision, the Washington State Supreme Court has held that Proposition 1 – an ordinance which increased the minimum wage within the city of SeaTac for employees in the hospitality and transportation industries to $15...more

Washington Supreme Court Finds that City of SeaTac Minimum Wage/Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Applies to Employers Located at the Port...

Littler on 8/21/2015

The legal challenge to the SeaTac Minimum Employment Standard for Hospitality and Transportation Industry Employers (“SeaTac Ordinance”) was dealt a possibly lethal blow as the Washington Supreme Court reversed the King...more

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