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Long Beach council backs plan to modernize airport and convention center minimum wages, directs ordinance drafting with threshold for temp workers
Summary
The Long Beach City Council voted Jan. 7 to direct staff to draft an ordinance modernizing minimum wages for concession workers at Long Beach Airport and the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, adopting a moderate approach that phases wages in and makes temporary agency workers eligible for the increase after 960 hours worked in a fiscal year.
The Long Beach City Council on Jan. 7 directed the City Manager and City Attorney to prepare an ordinance updating minimum wages for concession workers at the Long Beach Airport and Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center and to strengthen compliance and service-charge provisions.
The council asked staff to pursue the moderate-impact option presented by Economic Development staff and to include a modification: temporary workers provided by staffing agencies would become eligible for the minimum-wage provisions after accumulating more than 960 hours in a single fiscal year.
Why it matters: The step is intended to extend living-wage protections aligned with Measure RW to airport and convention-concession workers while balancing the facilities' fiscal constraints and existing collective bargaining agreements. Council members said they wanted to protect workers without harming the convention center's competitiveness or jeopardizing a proposed capital investment at the airport.
What staff presented: City staff and the Airport Director laid out three broad approaches:
- Option 1 (status quo): allow operators and labor partners to continue collective bargaining without an immediate…
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