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Court Upholds L.A. Living Wage Law
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 : A California appeals court last month upheld a Los Angeles living wage law that requires a dozen major hotels near Los Angeles International Airport to pay some 3,500 workers wage and benefits that equal at least $10.64 an hour. The 3?0 ruling by a panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeals overturned an earlier one by a county court that blocked implementation of the wage floor.
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, UNITE HERE and community groups successfully mobilized support for the wage law that won City Council approval in 2006 and was signed into 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:
Read MoreWe 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.
For more information:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/01/08/court-up...
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