Kevin Carroll
Hotels Sue SF To Protect Workers, Guests From Unsafe Cleaning Ordinance
July 20, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2020 - The Hotel Council of San Francisco, the California Hotel and Lodging Association and the American Hotel & Lodging Association filed a lawsuit today to overturn the County of San Francisco's so-called "Healthy Buildings" ordinance that endangers hotel employees and guests and causes significant economic hardships by forcing many hotels to remain closed and permanently lay off thousands of workers. The ordinance, approved on July 7 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and signed on July 17 by Mayor Breed puts hotel employees at greater risk of exposure to COVID-19, will delay those workers' return to ...
San Francisco Hotels Call Out Cleaning Proposal as Unscientific, Costly
June 30, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2020 - Hundreds of members of San Francisco's hotel community assailed the costly, unscientific, environmentally harmful and job-killing proposed "Healthy Business" ordinance at Monday's Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting. Members of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, California Hotel and Lodging Association, American Hotel and Lodging Association, environmentalists and the San Francisco business community expressed frustration at the proposal's lack of scientific support and, if approved, the economic harm it will impose on hotels already expected to be closed for several months. San Francisco hote...
