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Recommendation to direct City Manager, or his designee, to draft an ordinance regarding hotels with 100 rooms or more that includes, but is not limited to the following:
· Panic Buttons: Requiring that hotel employers provide panic buttons to each hotel employee assigned to working a guest room without other hotel employees present, at no cost to the hotel employee.
· Notice to Hotel Employees: Requiring hotel employers to provide notice to employees, prior to starting their scheduled work, of any guest on the list of alleged harassers or is a sex offender under Long Beach Municipal Code Section 9.66.010 who is staying at the hotel and the number or name of the room assigned to the guest and warn the hotel employees to exercise caution when entering that designated room during the time the guest is staying in the hotel.
· Notice in Guest Rooms: Requiring hotel employers to provide a sign on the back of each guest room door, written in a font size of no less than 18 points, that includes the heading "The Law Protects Hotel Housekeepers and Hotel Employees from harassment," notice that the hotel provides panic buttons to employees assigned to work in guest rooms without other hotel employees present, and a citation to the Long Beach Municipal Code created by this ordinance.
· Hotel Employees' Rights: Establishing hotel employee's rights in cases in which hotel employee notifies hotel employer about an unwanted sexual advance, request for sexual conduct, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature by a guest which include:
o Upon request, the hotel employee shall be reassigned to a different floor, a different work area, or away from the guest for the entire duration of the guest's stay at the hotel.
o The hotel employer shall allow sufficient paid time to contact the police and provide a police statement and to consult with a counselor or advisor of the hotel employee's choosing.
o The hotel employer shall cooperate with any investigation in...
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