WASHINGTON—American Resort & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey issued the next assertion after the introduction of a New York Metropolis Council invoice that will make lodges abide by operational mandates to remain in enterprise.
“This abrupt and damaging invoice would completely alter how lodges function and threaten the roles of 1000’s of New Yorkers,” stated Carey. “If it turns into legislation, 1000’s of resort jobs may very well be misplaced, lodges will shutter, and New York Metropolis’s financial system—particularly small enterprise retailers, eating places, and different resort service suppliers—will endure considerably. The invoice imposes office guidelines that needs to be negotiated on the collective bargaining desk, and fast-tracking a proposal of this magnitude within the useless of summer season with out enter from hoteliers is coverage malpractice.
“What’s extra, the laws creates a one-size-fits-all mannequin that fails to keep in mind the distinctive staffing and operational wants of town’s practically 700 lodges. The laws’s proposed ban stopping non-union lodges from subcontracting sure capabilities will spoil the power of many small-business lodges to take care of constant operations on this powerful labor market. The American Resort & Lodging Affiliation urges councilmembers to take a extra deliberative strategy to this invoice, which might have a widespread adverse affect on town’s workforce and financial system.”
On July 18, New York Metropolis Council members launched a invoice that will require lodges to acquire extra licenses to function within the metropolis. Securing these licenses would require non-union lodges to get rid of using subcontractors for core capabilities—an try to show unionization right into a government-enforced requirement for lodges.
The invoice would additionally require all resort homeowners to be handled as joint employers together with resort operators and set strict necessities for quite a few resort staffing capabilities.
