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Lost Wages, Soaring Revenue: An Analysis of the Impact of the Failure of Hotels to Implement the Century Corridor Living Wage

2008

On November 22, 2006 the Los Angeles City Council adopted an ordinance requiring LAX-area hotels to pay workers a living wage. The hotels responded by gathering signatures for a referendum and by filing a lawsuit that has delayed implementation of the living wage for more than a year.


This white paper attempts to quantify the cost to employees of that delay and also looks at the growth in revenue for the hotels during that time.