As used in this chapter, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the meanings set forth below, unless the context requires otherwise:
.010 “Adverse employment action” means an action that detrimentally and materially affects the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including but not limited to, any act to discharge, reduce in compensation, reduce work hours, alter established work schedules, increase workload, impose fees or charges, or change duties of a hotel worker.
.020 “City” means the City of Anaheim, California.
.030 “Emergency” means an immediate threat to public safety or of substantial risk of property loss or destruction.
.040 “Guest” means a registered guest of a hotel, a person occupying a guest room with a registered guest, or a visitor invited to a guest room by a registered guest or other person occupying a guest room.
.050 “Guest room” means any room, suite of rooms, dwelling unit, cottage, or bungalow intended to be used by a guest of a hotel for transient sleeping purposes.
.060 “Hotel” means an establishment that provides temporary lodging for payment in the form of overnight accommodations in guest rooms to transient patrons for periods of thirty consecutive calendar days or less, and may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. “Hotel” includes hotels, motor lodges, motels, apartment hotels, transient occupancy residential structures, and extended-stay hotels that rent units (including units with kitchens) for thirty days or less, private residential clubs, tourist courts, and hostels that contain both dormitory-style accommodations and private guest rooms that may be reserved, meeting the definition set forth above. “Hotel” also includes any contracted, leased, or sublet premises operated in conjunction with a hotel or that is used for the primary purpose of providing services at a hotel. Except as provided above, the term “Hotel” does not include corporate housing, rooming houses, boarding houses, single-room occupancy housing, or licensed bed and breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence. “Hotel” does not include a Short-Term Rental, as defined in Chapter 4.05 of the Anaheim Municipal Code.
.070 “Hotel employer” means any person who owns, controls, or operates a hotel in the City, and includes any person or contractor who, in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity, employs hotel workers to provide services at a hotel in conjunction with the hotel’s purpose.
.080 “Hotel worker” means any person who is employed by a hotel employer to provide services at a hotel. “Hotel worker” does not include a managerial, supervisory, or confidential employee.
.090 “Personal security device” means a portable emergency contact device, including but not limited to a panic button, that signals the hotel worker’s location and that provides direct contact between a hotel worker and a hotel security guard or responsible manager or supervisor designated by a hotel employer to respond to violent or threatening conduct. A personal security device does not include a whistle, noise-maker, alarm bell, or similar device that does not provide direct contact between the hotel worker and the designated security officer.
.100 “Response personnel” means the designated safety and security personnel assigned to monitor and immediately and properly respond to personal security device activations, which must include at least one person who is on duty 24 hours a day.
.110 “Violent or threatening conduct” means: (1) any conduct that involves the use of physical violence or that would reasonably be interpreted as conveying a threat of the use of physical violence, and includes but is not limited to rape, assault (including sexual assault), and battery (including sexual battery), as defined by the California Penal Code, as well as any threat or attempt to commit such an act; or (2) any sexual conduct, or solicitation to engage in sexual conduct, directed at a hotel worker without the consent of the hotel worker and includes, but is not limited to, indecent exposure as defined by the California Penal Code. (Ord. 6558 § 2 (part); June 27, 2023.)