SEC. 182.20. PURPOSE. (Added by Ord. No. 188,610, Eff. 9/8/25, Oper. 12/1/25.) The City of Los Angeles has a history of supporting our tourism and hospitality industries. Laws such as the Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance and the Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance demonstrate the City’s commitment to promoting the well-being and rights of the hotel workers, thereby enabling the tourism and hospitality industries to flourish. The City also has an interest in ensuring the safety of its hotel workers, hotel guests, and members of the public who visit these establishments. Hotel workers, especially room attendants, a majority of whom are women or immigrants, often work alone in guest rooms where there are no witnesses or cameras. The nature of their position makes them uniquely able to identify and report threats and crimes. It also, however, subjects them to risks of threatening behavior, including sexual assault and other crimes – many of which go unreported to the police. This ordinance seeks to ensure the specified hotel workers have the knowledge and skills to protect their own rights and to promote public health and safety, including by helping to identify potential instances of human trafficking and sexual and domestic violence. The ordinance would require an estimated 3,000 covered hotel workers receive six additional hours of training, to be provided by an outside agency and administered by the City. This will ensure personnel conducting the training have a requisite level of expertise and that there is consistency in the quality of training provided to workers Citywide. It will also enable workers, during the training, to identify any issues or concerns they have about their rights and the safety of their workplace without fear of retaliation from their employer.