Posted on 12/13/2024 5:37:57 AM PST by blueplum
(The Center Square) - Los Angeles City council voted to pass a $30 minimum wage for hotel and airport workers, along with an additional healthcare benefit starting at $8.35 per hour for employees of businesses that do not provide health insurance.
Businesses say the large spike in wages will lead to closures, scaling back employees, and hotels backing out of agreements put in place for the 2028 Olympics — and could threaten the city budget....
Hotels say the new wage increase is unaffordable, especially with income for many hotels flat as other costs rise, and could leave some with no option but to convert to homeless housing....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“”Get with the program!””
I try....Remember the very OLD saying:
My get up and go has got up and went!
Good. Close it down. Flush LA just like NYC.
$30!! That’s ridiculous! It should be at least $75!
Well, so much for “Fight for $15”...that ship sailed (as predicted).
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they are socialists, communists have guns but apples from the same tree.
yn germany in 78, 20 cents a pack was high
in Germany in 78, 20 cents a pack was high
they would probably make money with full capacity, government subsidies and section 8 picking up all repair cost and fewer employees make there own beds and cleaning, also govt, subsidized food service.
And any hotel that thinks it can make money as a homeless shelter had better get ready to have its structures, furnishings, and brand destroyed.
I can’t top that, but close.
In 1972 I paid $2.20 a carton at the PX
I suppose CA would simply pass a law against that, nullifying previously signed contracts.
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