minimum wage
AAHOA Opposes Los Angeles City Council’s Proposed Minimum Wage Increase for Hotel Workers
AAHOA | October 22, 2024
LOS ANGELES, CA, OCTOBER 22, 2024 — AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), representing 1,165 hotel owners in the Greater Los Angeles Area, voiced strong opposition to the Los Angeles City Council's proposed minimum wage increase for hotel workers, which would raise wages to $30 per hour, along with an additional $8 per hour for healthcare. AAHOA maintains that a recent economic impact study supporting this measure is fundamentally flawed, inaccurately concluding that the hotel industry can absorb such a drastic increase. AAHOA Members have testified multiple times before the Council, including last week when a delega...
LA $25 Wage Proposal Puts Politics Over Policy, Say CHLA, AAHOA, HALA
April 13, 2023
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 13, 2023 -- The $25 an hour minimum wage proposed today by Los Angeles City Council Member Curren Price is a short-sighted, industry-specific mandate for political gain, that ignores accepted living wage policies and far less pay for teachers and city workers. "Why is it that city leaders push onerous financial burdens on our still fragile hospitality community, without demanding similar pay for Los Angeles teachers and city staff?" said Lynn S. Mohrfeld, President and CEO of the California Hotel & Lodging Association (CHLA). "It is proposals like these that have led to the city's reputation as a diffic...
Tharaldson Hospitality Management Raises Minimum Wage in California Hotels
Tharaldson Hospitality Management | May 19, 2021
CA – May 19, 2021 – Tharaldson Hospitality Management (THM) is excited to announce that in May of 2021, they have increased minimum wage for all associates in California to $15 an hour. This change comes seven months ahead of the state-wide minimum wage increase, which the state of California has slated to begin on January 1, 2022. “We are increasing the minimum wage in California to $15 an hour now—seven months ahead of the California mandate—as our way of thanking our essential employees,” says Aimee Fyke, Chief Operating Officer of THM. “Our company could not have survived the pandemic without our essential staff member...
How Hoteliers Can Handle a Minimum Wage Jump
Laurel A. Keller | December 21, 2015
December 2015 by Laurel A. Keller, MAI and John Kelley III, CHIA Over the past dozen years, 23 cities in the United States increased minimum wage above the federally mandated level. Another nine cities have similar legislation pending, and more are expected to follow suit. Meanwhile, government officials, economists and Americans everywhere debate the merits of more than doubling the federally mandated minimum wage from $7.25 to $15. Because labor cost represents the majority of a hotel's expenses, this issue has significant implications for hotel executives, owners and operators. Hotel & Leisure Advisors' research indicates that a ...
