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AHLA: DOL Overtime Rule Will Hurt Hotels and Limit Employee Opportunities
AHLA | April 24, 2024
WASHINGTON (April 24, 2024) – American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President & CEO Kevin Carey issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor (DOL) released its final overtime rule to raise the minimum salary threshold under which all employees must be paid overtime for any hours worked over 40 in a week. “This rule is part of a growing list of aggressive federal regulatory efforts that are making it even harder for hoteliers to operate their businesses in this challenging environment. The impacts of this regulation will risk the elimination of jobs and make it more difficult for employees to ...
AHLA Leads Coalition Letter Supporting Overtime Pay Flexibility Act
AHLA | March 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (March 11, 2024) – American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Executive Vice President, Federal and Political Affairs & Counsel Chirag Shah released the following statement today after AHLA joined dozens of organizations in urging Congress to support the Overtime Pay Flexibility Act (H.R. 7367): “AHLA joined with the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity and 83 employer organizations in a letter to Congress urging support of H.R. 7367, the Overtime Pay Flexibility Act. H.R. 7367 would prohibit the Department of Labor (DOL) from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing its proposed rule on increasing the ove...
AHLA Statement on Resolution To Overturn Independent Contractor Rule
AHLA | March 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (March 11, 2024) – American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President & CEO Kevin Carey issued the following statement today after Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, and Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Labor’s independent contractor rule. “In one of the toughest labor markets in history, the Labor Department’s new rule would limit opportunities for individuals to work as independent contractors and hurt hotels’ ability to maintain operations,” said AHLA Interim President & CEO Kevin Carey. “AHLA applauds Sen. Cassidy ...
AHLA: Proposed DOL Rule Would Make Bad Labor Market Worse
AHLA | December 14, 2022
WASHINGTON (Dec. 14, 2022) – In comments submitted to the Department of Labor yesterday, the American Hotel & Lodging Association strongly opposed DOL’s proposed regulations that would revise its analysis for determining employee or independent contractor classifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act. AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers also released the following statement today opposing the proposal. “The Department of Labor’s proposed changes would make the historically difficult labor challenges even worse,” said AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers. “With almost all hotels dealing with staffing shortages, h...
Hotel Industry to Labor: Overtime Increase Too High, Too Fast
American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) | September 4, 2015
Washington, D.C. – September 4, 2015 – The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), the sole national association representing all segments of the 1.8 million-employee lodging industry, today filed official comments regarding the Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed changes to our nation's overtime rules. AH&LA's comments highlight the lodging industry's concerns with DOL's proposal to more than double the salary threshold of employees eligible for overtime pay from $23,660 to $50,440. The comments further urge the Department of Labor to use a past precedent and methodologies that would result in a much more reasona...
