City of Long Beach - File #: 23-1227

• File #: 23-1227
• Version: 1
• Name: CA - Hotel Worker Ord
• Type: Resolution
• Status: To Be Introduced
• File created: 10/16/2023
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 10/24/2023
• Title: Recommendation to adopt resolution requesting the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to call, provide, and give notice of a Primary Municipal Election to be consolidated with the Statewide General Election to be held in the City of Long Beach (City) on March 5, 2024, and include the proposed ordinance to a vote of the qualified electors of the City relating to an increase of the minimum wage of hotel workers in the City of Long Beach, clarifying the payment of “wages” and “service charges” to qualifying hotel workers in the City, authorizing the City future amendments to said ordinance, authorizing the City Council to make future amendments to the City’s hotel worker minimum compensation standards; requesting the County of Los Angeles to consolidate said election with the Statewide Primary Election of even date; and setting rules and deadlines for arguments for and against the ordinance. (Citywide)
• Sponsors: City Attorney

TITLE
Recommendation to adopt resolution requesting the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to call, provide, and give notice of a Primary Municipal Election to be consolidated with the Statewide General Election to be held in the City of Long Beach (City) on March 5, 2024, and include the proposed ordinance to a vote of the qualified electors of the City relating to an increase of the minimum wage of hotel workers in the City of Long Beach, clarifying the payment of “wages” and “service charges” to qualifying hotel workers in the City, authorizing the City future amendments to said ordinance, authorizing the City Council to make future amendments to the City’s hotel worker minimum compensation standards; requesting the County of Los Angeles to consolidate said election with the Statewide Primary Election of even date; and setting rules and deadlines for arguments for and against the ordinance. (Citywide)

DISCUSSION
Pursuant to your request on September 19, 2023, this Ordinance has been prepared and is submitted for your consideration. On September 19, 2023, City Council received and filed a report on a proposed Long Beach Minimum Wage for Hotel Workers and requested the City Attorney to prepare a ballot measure for consideration of the voters at the March 2024 municipal election to authorize a market pay adjustment that ensures fair and competitive
wages for hotel workers. This Ordinance does the following:

• Increases the minimum wage for hotel workers in a phased approach, as outlined in “Option C” of the staff report presented to the City Council on September 19, 2023, included as Attachment “1”; and

• Clarifies and strengthens the "service charge" provisions of the current ordinance to help close loopholes and ensure that service charge revenues go directly to the hotel workers performing services for customers from whom the service charges are collected; and

• Allows the City Council to enact future changes to the hotel worker ordinance by a two-thirds (?...