Court Upholds L.A. Living Wage Law

Hotel and other business owners strongly opposed the new law and the City Council rewrote parts of it in an attempt to address the business community’s concerns, but business interests sued to block the rewritten new wage law.

James Elmendorf, the policy director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, told the Los Angeles Times:

We spent a lot of time negotiating with [business interests] trying to reach an accommodation. We assume there is very little anyone can do to convince hotels that paying workers fairly is the right thing to do, so we have to keep the pressure on.