Seattle leaders considering rules to protect hotel workers
Seattle City leaders are considering sweeping new regulations to protect hotel workers. The four controversial proposals look at everything from worker safety to health care costs.
The legislation requires that employees who work in guest rooms are given panic buttons and that the hotel develop policies to deal with violent and harassing conduct by guests. One of the more controversial proposals talks about developing a list of guests who will be banned from the hotel because of past behavior.
Housekeepers Lula Haile told those gathered at a city hall press conference she experienced harassment from a guest when she was cleaning.
“He come behind me, he grab me, when he grab me hard, I fight him,” she explained.
Haile said she told her supervisor who called security but the harassment didn’t stop from the guest who propositioned her for sex. Haile said she was told she could skip work when the guest was at the hotel but she eventually decided to quit.
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