Hotel workers who work by themselves in guest rooms are vulnerable to crimes and other threatening behavior, including sexual assault. Ensuring that hotel workers are equipped with personal security devices and supported in their ability to report criminal and threatening behavior to the proper authorities will promote their personal safety from criminal threat and improve public safety overall.
Hotel employees who clean guest rooms are also frequently assigned overly burdensome room cleaning quotas, and can be disciplined for failing to meet these quotas. Overly burdensome room cleaning quotas undermine the public interest in ensuring that hotel room cleaners can perform their work in a manner that adequately protects public health. Such cleaning requirements also interfere with hotel employees’ ability to meet family, community, and personal obligations. This article includes provisions to assure that workers receive fair compensation through a wage premium when their workload assignments exceed defined limits. Ensuring that hotel workers receive fair compensation for their work assignments will promote the public interest and enable hotel workers to receive fair pay for honest work.
Hotel employees are also frequently assigned unexpected and mandatory overtime, which limits hotel employees’ ability to meet family and personal commitments and interferes with their ability to schedule in advance for those commitments. This article prohibits hotel employers from assigning an employee overtime work when their shifts exceed 10 hours in a day without obtaining the worker’s informed consent, except in emergencies.