Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has launched an investigation into labor practices at some hotels in the county accused of hiring homeless refugees to replace striking workers, his office announced Oct. 23. Unite Here Local 11, representing 32,000 hotel workers in Southern California and Arizona on strike since …
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California has taken another leap forward in efforts to ban indoor smoking, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 626 into law earlier this month, which closes loopholes in the state’s existing law, from the 1990s, which allowed 20 percent of guestrooms in a hotel, motel, or other similar lodging …
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