WASHINGTON—American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey issued the next assertion after the discharge of a revised invoice that might impose new measures in opposition to inns in New York Metropolis:
“The town council’s discussions relating to the Lodge Security Act proceed to exclude those that shall be most affected by the laws—lodge homeowners, administration corporations, sub-contractors, and tens of 1000’s of lodge staff. It’s crucial that each one stakeholders have an actual seat on the desk. If it is a matter of public security and crime, as has been claimed by Councilwoman Julie Menin (D-District 5) and the invoice’s proponents, let’s evaluation the details and statistics to see what image they paint. Advancing these claims with scant knowledge and no public course of will considerably harm the lodge business, hurt New York’s economic system, and negatively influence each the town’s status and its fiscal well being.
“Merely said, this proposal is dangerous for everybody: inns, NYC’s tourism economic system, visitors, and lodge staff. The revised invoice nonetheless imposes costly and burdensome necessities on lodge homeowners and successfully prohibits lodge administration corporations from working within the metropolis. Because it stands, these revisions don’t resolve the catastrophic penalties of this invoice, which may result in lodge closures and mass layoffs of staff, whereas ignoring many operational realities and visitor preferences. The results of this abruptly launched laws shall be far-reaching and doubtlessly devastating.
“On behalf of the 30,000-plus members AHLA represents, we urge Councilwoman Menin and Metropolis Council management to withdraw this laws.”
On July 18, New York Metropolis Councilwoman Julie Menin proposed Int. No. 991, a invoice that might impose staffing necessities on NYC inns and mandate different guidelines that might disrupt lodge operations, threaten the franchise enterprise mannequin, and require some lodge homeowners to divest their properties.
On August 2, Menin launched revisions to the invoice that didn’t handle the laws’s many issues.
The revised textual content of the invoice:
- Creates a brand new lodge licensing construction that the town can’t afford to implement correctly.
- Mandates that lodge homeowners have to be the direct employer of all housekeeping, room attendance, and upkeep employees.
- Prohibits all NYC inns from sub-contracting key operational features, immediately harming small NYC companies.
- Forces a few of NYC’s inns to shut or be offered attributable to conflicts with federal tax regulation.
- Eliminates the flexibility of lodge administration corporations to function in NYC.
- Creates one-size-fits-all minimal staffing and cleansing mandates that ignore particular person lodge wants and visitor preferences.
- Will trigger 1000’s of NYC lodge staff to lose their jobs.
