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INITIATIVE 2023-001
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Opportunity to provide the City Council and the 
public with factual information regarding Initiative 
2023-001.  
The City Council will take no official action, will 
not participate in debate, and will not provide any 
consensus regarding Initiative 2023-001. 
INFORMATION SESSION

EVENT CENTER (§21-187)
An event center means a publicly or privately 
owned structure in the City of more than 
20,000 square feet that is used for public 
performances, 
sporting 
events, 
business 
meetings, or similar events.  An event center 
includes, but is not limited to concert halls, 
stadiums, 
sports 
arenas, 
racetracks, 
coliseums, and convention centers.

MINIMUM WAGE (§21-189)
- $20/ Hour - Minimum Wage for Event Center 
Workers, not including tips, gratuities, service 
charge distributions and bonuses. 
- Annual COLA increase to the minimum wage; 
the greater of 3% or the preceding CPI increase 
for urban wage earner and clerical workers.
- Does not include tips, gratuities, service charge 
distribution and bonuses.

A hotel means an establishment in the city that provides 
temporary lodging for payment in the form of overnight 
accommodation in guest rooms to transient patrons for periods of 
thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or less.  This definition 
includes hotels, motor lodges, motels, apartment hotels, transient 
residential structures, private residential clubs, tourist courts, 
hostels and private guest rooms that may be reserved, meeting the 
hotel definition. 
HOTEL (§21-187)

WORKLOAD WAGES AND BENEFITS (§21-188) 
- For hotels with fewer than 60 guest rooms, the 
employer shall not require a room attendant to 
clean more than 4,000 square feet in an 8-hour 
workday unless the employer pays premium 
pay (double pay rate) for each and every hour 
during that workday.

WORKLOAD WAGES AND BENEFITS (§21-188) 
- For hotels with greater than 60 guest rooms, 
the employer shall not require a room attendant 
to clean more than 3,500 square feet in an 8-
hour workday unless the employer pays 
premium pay (double pay rate) for each and 
every hour during that workday.

WORKLOAD WAGES AND BENEFITS (§21-188) 
- If during an 8-hour work day a room attendant is required 
to clean a combination of 6 or more special attention 
rooms (a checkout room or a guest room for which the 
occupant declined daily room cleaning on the immediately 
preceding day) or additional bedrooms, the total amount of 
square footage for premium pay shall be reduced  by five 
hundred (500) square feet.

SERVICE CHARGES (§21-190)
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All service charges shall be distributed to the event center and 
hotel employee.  No portion to be paid to supervisory or 
managerial. 
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All service charges must be disclosed with clean and conspicuous 
notice.
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The hotel or event center shall disclose in writing its plan of 
distributing and how distributed.
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Must be paid on next payroll unless cash (must be distributed on 
same day).
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No deduction for credit card charges.
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3-year record retention.
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Does not include tips.

WAIVER/SUPERCESSION
LIMITED WAIVER (§21-191)
A one (1) year waiver may be granted if compliance with this law would 
require the employer, in order to avoid bankruptcy or a shutdown of the 
hotel or event center, to reduce its workforce by more than 20 percent or 
curtail its workers total work hours by more than 30 percent. 
SUPERSESSION BY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT 
(§21-195)
The regulations regarding working conditions and wages may be waived 
pursuant to a bona fide collective bargaining agreement.

RETALIATORY ACTS (§21-193) 
Retaliatory acts by the employer are prohibited.

DEPT. OF LABOR (§21-196) 
Effective June 1, 2025, the City will create a department of 
labor standards, appoint investigators, and promulgate 
regulations. 
Effective June 1, 2025, the City shall create an online and 
paper method for individuals to file complaints.
The Labor Department is authorized to engage in rule making 
consistent and in furtherance of the new law (§21-194).

CITY ENFORCEMENT (§21-197) 
- Access to all records, if not access the worker's 
record shall be presumed accurate.
- Civil penalty of up to one hundred dollars ($100) 
per day to be paid to the hotel or event center 
worker.
- Violations shall not exceed $1,000 per day per 
employer. 
- Statutory damages. 
- 3-year statute of limitations.

PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION (§21-198) 
- Any party impacted by the law may have the right to 
sue. 
- Three-year statute of limitations within which any 
aggrieved individual may commence a civil action. 
- Civil penalty of up to one hundred dollars ($100) to be 
paid to the hotel or event center worker whose rights 
were violated and for each day of the violation.  
Violations shall not exceed $1000 per day per employer.  
The Court shall award attorney fees and costs to a 
prevailing party.

INITIATIVE 2023-001
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024