WASHINGTON—American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey launched the next assertion after the New York Metropolis Council postponed a deliberate July 30 listening to on a invoice that might hurt the town’s practically 700 inns and their roughly 265,000 staff.
“Over the past ten days, NYC’s lodge trade and the tourism economic system have rallied to talk with one voice and resoundingly clarify that the Lodge Licensing invoice launched within the Metropolis Council has the potential to devastate New York Metropolis’s lodge trade. We’re grateful for the help of our members, lodge trade coalition companions, and our allies within the restaurant and actual property neighborhood for serving to to avert an financial catastrophe in New York Metropolis that nobody desires.”
“We wish to acknowledge Councilwoman Julie Menin for listening to the lodge trade’s issues with this invoice, delaying its consideration, and agreeing to work with us on a means ahead with the trade now on the desk,” mentioned Carey.
On July 18, Councilwoman Julie Menin proposed Int. No. 991, a invoice that might impose onerous and pointless staffing necessities on inns within the metropolis and mandate different guidelines that might disrupt lodge eating places, threaten the operation of the franchise enterprise mannequin, and require some lodge homeowners to divest from their properties.
The invoice would additionally require all lodge homeowners to be handled as joint employers together with lodge operators and set strict necessities for a number of lodge staffing features.
On July 28, Councilwoman Menin agreed to delay a deliberate July 30 listening to on the invoice to “enable for extra time for suggestions previous to taking the following step within the legislative course of.” Menin mentioned she wished to make use of the time to “work with my companions in authorities, labor, and trade stakeholders” on the invoice.
