In June 2024, I filed a lawsuit on behalf of the City against Oakland Alameda Hotels LLC, owner and operator of the Radisson Hotel Oakland Airport, for minimum wage violations of Oakland law and failure to correct the violations and pay back wages to the workers as ordered by the City’s Department of Workplace and Employment Standards (DWES). In 2018, Oakland voters passed Oakland’s Hotel Workers Protection & Employment Standards Ordinance (Measure Z) to ensure safety, a humane workload, and minimum wage for hotel workers. The defendants, owners of Oakland Alameda Hotels, blatantly violated that law. Despite the City’s repeated attempts to secure compliance through its administrative process, the hotel owners failed to cooperate and refused to pay the restitution owed to the affected employees. Defendants owe $404,491 to 128 affected Oakland workers, many of whom are housekeepers and line staff, Spanish-speaking, and women. The case is City of Oakland v. Oakland Alameda Hotels LLC et al.