Workers hit with job losses after LA’s new $22.50 wage law backfires

ONE law intended to help workers in tourist-trodden Los Angeles has gone wrong.

An industry in the famed city is working around the wage increase.

Hotel owners in the town are simply lowering its employee count after its hand was forced to pay workers more, according to data.

In late 2024, LA’s City Council approved an ordinance that would incrementally increase pay for hotel and airport workers with a plan of reaching $30 an hour by mid-2028…

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