2027 Santa Monica, CA Hotel Worker Living Wage Poster

The Santa Monica, CA Hotel Worker Living Wage Poster is required to ensure hotel industry employers comply with local living wage requirements and inform employees of their workplace rights and protections. Businesses in the hotel industry must post the Santa Monica Minimum Wage legal notices in both English and Spanish, as well as in any other language spoken by 5% or more of their workforce. These postings ensure employees are aware of applicable minimum wage rates, living wage requirements, and their legal entitlements. Failure to display the required notices in the appropriate languages may result in noncompliance with Santa Monica labor regulations and potential penalties.

Under Santa Monica's municipal code Section 4.63.01, the definition of "Hotel" means an establishment that provides temporary lodging in the form of overnight accommodations in guest rooms to transient patrons who maintain a permanent place of residence elsewhere for payment for periods of thirty consecutive calendar days or less, and may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public.

Businesses covered under Section 4.63.010 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code are legally subject to the requirements of the City's Hotel Worker Living Wage Ordinance.

• Motor lodges
• Motels
• Apartment hotels
• Tourist courts
• Any contracted, leased or sublet premises operated in conjunction with a hotel or that is used for the primary purpose of providing services at a hotel.
  

Businesses not covered under the ordinance: 

• Hostels
• Corporate housing
• Rooming houses
• Boarding houses
• Private residential clubs
• Single-room occupancy housing
• Vacation rentals
• Breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence.

This notice must be posted in a conspicuous location where employees can easily read it.

Poster Weight: 0.5 lb
Poster Size: 11" x 17"
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