Just a few days after taking effect, Measure N is living up to its promise of transforming Long Beach's hotel industry. Unfortunately, it isn't being transformed for the better, and now hotel employees are having to bear the brunt of this unwise plan with no clear recourse on the horizon. Expect more layoffs in the new year, along with higher rooms rates for the city's tourists -- all because a pair of labor groups were able to hoodwink Long Beach voters.
LOL thats all you got?
Something tells me hotel management will be unmoved by that particular argument.
Actions have consequences, folks.
California, meet reality. Reality, California.
You can just exit (until states like California impose exit taxes).
I live in Long Beach, and of course I voted against this stupid measure. Most of the voters think there is some magical pool of money being hoarded by THE MAN. They think if they force the man to pay up, then justice is served and everyone will be happy. Hope you’re happy on the unemployment line.
Anybody who creates a job for another human being is "rich," and deserves to be punished.
How about shutting down completely, firing the employees, and moving out of state? Deed the property over to Long Beach for $1 and let them figure out what to do about their white elephant.
What the didn’t mention is if any hotels are actually planning to comply with this extortion. That is just as important, as if those hotels are part of a corporation, they are sticking it to their investors.
Hey Mr. Dickhead! If the ordinance applies to hotels over 100 rooms, and they choose to comply by becoming a hotel with less than 100 rooms, how is that any of your business? You wrote the law, why didn't you write what you really wanted if what it says isn't what you want? Besides, don't you think they'd rather stay at the previous larger size and make more money? Idiot. 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. The only principled response to tyranny is to find a way to give them the finger.
I think this one might already be on your list?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Just like business’s with 55 or 60 employees will close down, or pay overtime to get their employees down to under 50 so they can beat Obamacare
Besides being stupid, this has got to be illegal. Isn't there an equal protection clause?
How about all the mom and pop business get a measure passed that all big box stores (o/30 employees)must have a minimum wage of $20/hr in their city.
Or maybe City of Irvine pay a group to introduce a measure in the City of Santa Ana that all private business must pay their employees $50/hr.
The possibilities for mischief are endless.
California? Isn’t that the place their elected town hall people vote themselves $500,000 salaries and multi-million dollar pensions?
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.
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.
The laws of economics are like the laws of gravity. The longer you defy them, the more pain you’ll have in the end.
Minimum age laws are unconstitutional. It is totalitarianism.