WASHINGTON—After New York Metropolis Councilwoman Julie Menin shared a brand new model of her resort licensing invoice with business stakeholders, resort business leaders launched the next statements:
“Whereas we recognize the Councilwoman’s willingness to take heed to business suggestions and work towards extra smart outcomes for New York Metropolis’s inns, the brand new model of the laws nonetheless comprises language that can trigger important financial hurt—primarily to small, family-owned inns and the largely immigrant and minority-owned companies that assist them. There isn’t any query that this invoice, if handed, will trigger lots of New York Metropolis’s small companies to shut and hundreds of hard-working New Yorkers to lose their jobs. We can’t settle for any laws that causes such disparate impacts throughout the business,” stated AHLA Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey.
“The up to date model of Int. 991, if something, particularly targets immigrant and minority-owned companies that assist the hundreds of inns New York Metropolis’s tourism economic system must survive. The brand new invoice does nothing to guard our small companies and their households and could have disastrous impacts on our livelihoods. We can’t assist this invoice in its present kind and stay up for voicing our opposition on to Councilwoman Menin,” stated Mukesh Patel, a New York Metropolis hotelier and a founding member of NYC Minority Resort Affiliation.
“The Asian American Resort House owners Affiliation (AAHOA) has reviewed and opposes the union’s revised model of Int. 991 crafted behind closed doorways. As advocates for minority resort house owners and operators, we assist efforts to reinforce visitor and employee security, together with human trafficking coaching. Nevertheless, this invoice continues to disregard official considerations of our minority-owned small enterprise members, together with limitations on subcontracted employees and plenty of different operational burdens. We urge the Metropolis Council to proceed working with the business to discover a balanced resolution that protects each employees and companies,” stated Miraj Patel, chairman of AAHOA.
AHLA will proceed to advocate for a easy licensing invoice, which achieves the protection measures that the proponents of the invoice say are their acknowledged objective.
