Posted on 12/20/2012 4:33:33 PM PST by Libloather
Long Beach Best Western staff to be laid off as Measure N date nears
By Kelsey Duckett Staff Writer
Updated: 12/14/2012 06:50:37 PM PST
Days before a ballot measure forcing pay and benefit requirements on Long Beach's largest hotels is set to go into effect, one hotel is cutting back on rooms and laying off workers.
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"This is devastating," Shelton said. "We really want to send a strong message to the hotel community that this is not OK. Hotels that don't abide by this pay increase are undermining democracy."
Passing with 64.3 percent of the vote, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, the so-called living wage initiative goes into effect next Friday and will require Long Beach hotels with 100 rooms or more to pay employees at least $13 an hour.
California's minimum wage is $8.
The initiative requires that service charges are remitted to appropriate employees, gives a minimum of five paid sick days per year to full-time workers and pay an automatic 2 percent annual raise to employees.
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Why stop there. Simply vote for $1,000,000 dollar incomes for every worker. These idiots hate supply-side economics. Lets watch them try and make demand-side economics fly.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time .... well, maybe a majority of all the people all of the time in Californicate.
Domcracy: Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for lunch!
My brother, who is 66 years old was fired on Monday. He had been with the company for more than 25 years and was just told to clean out his desk and get out. A few years ago, when the company was going broke, my brother was saved the day by winning the Walmart contract for paving for the new Walmart super-store. The company wouldn’t even exist if my brother had won that contract and this is the thanks that he gets, fired so that the company can pay the Obamacare for the rest of the employees.
Since Cali has 11,000 employees of the state prison system over $100,000 per year and 900 employees over $200,000, it’s easy to see why the peons in the private sector see 13 bucks an hour (not quite 30 grand a year) as pocket money.
On a more serious note, this illustrates how corrosive those massive state salaries are to business.
” I think all of the affected sites should just add demising walls and additional lobbies so that now they’re “5 hotels, all with less than 100 rooms” or whatever.”
There may be a cheaper option - set it up as a condo with separate corporations each owning less that 100 rooms in fee; set up the common areas and assess each company to maintain based upon room square footage; set up a separate lobby services corporation to handle check in and check out for each of the corporations; each corporation would be responsible for room maintenance. Would be most simple with a high rise where each would purchase a sufficient number of whole floors to make a number smaller than a hundred. A low rise motel would be more difficult but even there, there could be logical (or not so logical) divisions.
All you need is a surveyor and a good lawyer.
The laws of economics are like the laws of gravity. The longer you defy them, the more pain you’ll have in the end.
I’m sorry this happened to your brother, but it’s not surprising. Many companies are laying off older workers to save costs - salaries, pensions, and health care. My husband was laid off 3 years ago, and fortunately, found another job within a few months. It doesn’t pay nearly as well as his old job, but we are just grateful that he was able to find something.
I like it! Better idea than mine.
Minimum age laws are unconstitutional. It is totalitarianism.
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