By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-13 14:08:13 | Updated at 2024-12-23 23:35:56
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LA passes $30 tourism wage, hotels say they’ll convert to homeless shelters
The Center Square via msn ^ | 12 Dec 2024 | Kenneth Schrupp
Posted on 12/13/2024 5:37:57 AM PST by blueplum
(The Center Square) - Los Angeles City council voted to pass a $30 minimum wage for hotel and airport workers, along with an additional healthcare benefit starting at $8.35 per hour for employees of businesses that do not provide health insurance.
Businesses say the large spike in wages will lead to closures, scaling back employees, and hotels backing out of agreements put in place for the 2028 Olympics — and could threaten the city budget....
Hotels say the new wage increase is unaffordable, especially with income for many hotels flat as other costs rise, and could leave some with no option but to convert to homeless housing....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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1 posted on 12/13/2024 5:37:57 AM PST by blueplum
To: blueplum
Hotels aren’t complaining.
They’re happy to suck off the government teat.
Beats having to work for customers.
2 posted on 12/13/2024 5:39:29 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: blueplum
“Hotels say the new wage increase is unaffordable”
Well, that is the f’n point.
3 posted on 12/13/2024 5:39:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
To: blueplum
Don’t just talk about it. Do it! Give the maggots on the City Council something to really worry about.
4 posted on 12/13/2024 5:40:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
To: blueplum
5 posted on 12/13/2024 5:41:12 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: blueplum
In a free America, this communist garbage should never be allowed. But this ball has been rolling for quite a while now. I’m just amazed at how stupid communists are.
6 posted on 12/13/2024 5:43:25 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
To: blueplum
“convert to homeless housing....”
Yeah, I see the ending well 👌
7 posted on 12/13/2024 5:44:02 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: blueplum
High minimum wages are to incentivize employers to hire illegal aliens under the table at lower rates.
It's the same with taxes on cigarettes. Such taxes are not to get people to quit but to instead allow the illicit unstamped or out-of-state stamped cigarette market to flourish.
8 posted on 12/13/2024 5:45:02 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
To: blueplum
Businesses say the large spike in wages will lead to closures, scaling back employees, and hotels backing out of agreements put in place for the 2028 Olympics
There is a very easy way to prevent these businesses from doing these things.....just make it illegal to do.
9 posted on 12/13/2024 5:45:07 AM PST by nitzy (We all thought that WW3 would be fought with WMDs. Instead it is being fought with NGOs.)
To: blueplum
> Los Angeles City council voted to pass a $30 minimum wage for hotel and airport workers… <
Wow. But I don’t live in Los Angeles or even in California. Can I get one of those jobs and work from home?
10 posted on 12/13/2024 5:46:08 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: blueplum
Last time I flew to L.A. was 2010. I visited everywhere but L.A. Try the frozen bananas in Long Beach.
11 posted on 12/13/2024 5:46:17 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: blueplum
The real minimum wage will always be 0 dollars.
12 posted on 12/13/2024 5:48:29 AM PST by Skwor
To: T.B. Yoits
“It’s the same with taxes on cigarettes.”
I was standing in line at the checkout in Walmart the other day. I noticed the premium cigarettes such as Malboro were just shy of $10 a pack. I had no idea that they cost that much.
13 posted on 12/13/2024 5:49:00 AM PST by caver
To: blueplum
LA = Louisiana
L.A. = Los Angeles
When are journalists going to get it right?
To: T.B. Yoits
“High minimum wages are to incentivize employers to hire illegal aliens under the table at lower rates.”
There’s a clause in most union contracts that union wages will be X percent above the minimum wage. This is what drives ALL increases in the minimum wage.
15 posted on 12/13/2024 5:49:27 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
To: mewzilla
“”Hotels aren’t complaining.””
Staying true to FR tradition - the first three paragraphs ARE complaints from businesses.....
To: blueplum
driving up inflation further. Liberals never learn
To: Leaning Right
When the state stops paying for the Illegals housing—this will suddenly stop. In California goes broke and Trump doesn’t send money—the world may change.
To: blueplum
Decisions like that are easy when you are playing with Monopoly money.
19 posted on 12/13/2024 6:03:11 AM PST by pfflier
To: blueplum
Decisions like that are easy when you are playing with Monopoly money.
20 posted on 12/13/2024 6:03:11 AM PST by pfflier
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