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In short: it's worker protections.
Is there a "food safety fee" for following food safety requirements? Is there a "this building has adequate fire suppression" fee? This is basically a "we follow local labor laws" fee.
The cost of business increasing is not the issue here, although some people here may feel strongly about that. Passing that increase on as a fee is the deception we're discussing.
The cost of doing business should be baked into the overall nightly rate, (which is algorithmic and highly variable already, so there is no excuse not to) so that the price is upfront to the consumer and hotels can be compared apples to apples, rather than the consumer having to unravel whatever hollywood accounting scheme each hotel comes up with to make their rate appear as low as possible.
What's being hidden here?
I wonder if you would get billed for forgetting your CRTs / tyres / hazardous waste / bags of asbestos when you checked out, if that was not explicitly in the contract...
Here's a summary of the ordinance for anyone who's not familiar:
https://wagesla.lacity.org/sites/g/files/wph1941/files/2022-...
And what I think is the full text:
https://wagesla.lacity.org/sites/g/files/wph1941/files/2022-...
Doesn't seem that stupid to me as a layperson, reading through it. I'm curious what you see at issue here.
There's even a one-year waiver available for financial hardship, and it appears some or all of the protections could be waived under a collective bargaining agreement.
Failure to ask this question is how you end up with idiotic, counterproductive Proposition 65 warnings all over everything in sight.
The rest of the law focuses on things like: any work over 10 hours in one day is voluntary. Hmm, I wonder why that is necessary?
It's just a political ploy to garner some ill will against regulators and make a few bucks in the process. Seems pretty genius (in a nefarious way) to me.
Which makes this ploy especially distasteful in my eyes - bit of a "the city made us make your servants feel safe and valued at work" fee.
You're expected to tip north of 20% for good service.
Sure, in theory this is not strictly mandatory. Socially, if you don't play the game you're a leeching pariah.
Basic accounting? If you used to pay $X for something and a new tax goes into effect that makes it $X * 5% tax, you can hide that into the overall price or be transparent to your customers about why your prices are increasing.
> they can shut down and find a job
Love it. The financial equivalent of "Why should I care about farmers? I buy my food at the store".
> Owning a business isn’t a right
If you're not allowed to independently make a living, but must be a wage slave for a different entity, then none of your other fundamental human rights really matter. The right to start your own business is one of the most fundamental human rights.
When you run an otherwise stable business and have records going back far enough it's pretty easy to see the "cost" of a any given change in how you run things especially if that change has a labor/materials impact that is pretty isolated and countable.
People also book hotels for their family members coming from elsewhere.