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City directs staff to update airport and convention-center wage code; temporary agency workers covered after 960 hours
Summary
The Long Beach City Council on Jan. 7 directed staff to draft an ordinance to update minimum wages for concession workers at the Long Beach Airport and Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center and to include temporary agency workers after they accrue 960 hours in a fiscal year.
The Long Beach City Council on Jan. 7 directed the city manager and city attorney to prepare an ordinance updating the city’s minimum-wage ordinance for concession workers at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center and Long Beach Airport.
Under the motion — which adopts the staff’s “moderate-impact” proposal with a modification — the amended Long Beach Municipal Code (Chapter 16.60) would align convention-center wages with the schedule in Measure RW (the city’s voter-approved hotel/restaurant living-wage schedule) and respect the airport’s existing collective-bargaining agreement timeline. The council also required that temporary workers acquired through staffing agencies become eligible for the wage protections after they accumulate more than 960 hours during a single fiscal year.
City staff told the council the current LBMC minimum for convention-center and airport concession workers is $17.97 an hour; Measure RW sets a higher schedule the city has…
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