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?
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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:
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.
The correct question isn't "What's stupid about this law," it's "What's necessary about this law?"
Failure to ask this question is how you end up with idiotic, counterproductive Proposition 65 warnings all over everything in sight.
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?