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Update: Los Angeles’ Citywide Hotel Minimum Wage Ordinance Is Already Having Disastrous Effects on the Local Economy
Update: Los Angeles’ Citywide Hotel Minimum Wage Ordinance Is Already Having Disastrous Effects on the Local Economy

The implementation of the City of Los Angeles’ Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance (“Ordinance”), which was adopted in May of 2025 and became effective in September of 2025, has already had disastrous effects in the first six months. Employers have been forced to cut costs and the hotel industry, its employees, and its partners are paying dearly for this implementation: they are paying with their entire livelihood. Instead of smaller, incremental, merit based hourly wage increases, the minimum wage mandate forced an entire industry and those who rely on this industry to absorb extraordinary increases in costs nearly overnight.

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Airport Workers, Bars, Employee, Employers, Employment, Hotel Workers, Minimum Wage, RestaurantsKathleenLos Angeles Hotel Worker, Los Angeles Airport Worker, Los Angeles Living Wage, Hotel Worker Minimum Wage
California Employees Who are Caring for a “Designated Person” Can Receive Paid Family Leave Benefits.
California Employees Who are Caring for a “Designated Person” Can Receive Paid Family Leave Benefits.

California has expanded paid leave and wage replacement laws again under its Paid Family Leave Program (PFL). Starting on July 1, 2028, California’s PFL will include “designated persons” who are not legally or biologically related to the employee. This means that eligible employees can now receive 8 weeks of partial wage replacement when the employee takes time off of work to care for extended family and any “designated person” who has a “family-like” relationship with the employee.

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Bars, Business Owners, Employee, Employers, Employment, Hotel Workers, Paid Family Leave, RestaurantsKathleenpaid family leave, CFRA, California Family Rights Act, California Paid Family Leave, Designated Person
L.A. Airport Workers and Hotel Workers Will Be Earning $30 An Hour by July 2028
L.A. Airport Workers and Hotel Workers Will Be Earning $30 An Hour by July 2028

The City of Los Angeles’ Ordinance requiring a $30 minimum wage for hotel and airport workers is no longer suspended, meaning the ordinance became effective on September 8, 2025. The referendum petition that had kept the new ordinance in suspension has failed due to insufficient signatures in support of the referendum.

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Business Owners, Bars, Employee, Employers, Employment, Minimum Wage, Restaurants, Hotel Workers, Airport WorkersKathleenLos Angeles Airport Worker, Los Angeles Hotel Worker, Los Angeles Living Wage, minimum wage increase, minimum wage, $30 Minimum Wage, Service Industry, 2028 Summer Olympics