Los Angeles Preliminarily Approves Minimum Wage Increase for Hotel and Airport Workers

Los Angeles Preliminarily Approves Minimum Wage Increase for Hotel and Airport Workers
A Delta employee interacts with a traveler waiting in line at check-in in Terminal 2, Delta Airlines, at Los Angeles airport, on July 19, 2024. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—An ordinance to increase the minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers—reaching $30 per hour by 2028—a plan hoteliers and some business owners warned will threaten an already unstable industry, is headed back to the City Council for a second vote later this month.

In a 12–3 vote on May 14, council members authorized updates to the city’s Living Wage and Hotel Workers Minimum Wage ordinances, which regulate the minimum wage for such workers. Hotel and airport employees would receive $22.50 per hour starting in July under the amendments, followed by an annual $2.50 increase over three years.

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