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The Changing Hotel Legal Environment: Being Aware and Prepared
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December 30, 2021 via HospitalityNet
The legal environment of the hospitality industry is forever evolving and changing. Given specific hospitality industry events and circumstances, industry professionals need to view the law, policies and regulations across the industry -- and beyond -- with particular attention to social, political, environmental, and human needs and their responsibilities and obligations.

The past few years have been framed by COVID-19 concerns and efforts to sustain, recover and transition back to a new normal. In this author's opinion, things won't go back to how they were pre-COVID-19, and the operating and legal environment will adapt to a changing environment across all aspects of business.
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What Does Your Hotel Management Agreement Say?

December 2021 via Hotel Management
Although everything is always negotiable, the job of a hotel attorney is to understand why the provisions in the form of agreement say what they say, so it can explain if an issue on the table conforms to market and is reasonable or not.
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What You Need to Know About California’s New Composting Law — a Game Changer for Food Waste

December 26, 2021 via LA Times

Senate Bill 1383 requires all residents and businesses to separate such “green” waste from other trash, but the program will be rolled out gradually for homes and businesses in the coming months, with the actual startup date varying, depending on the location of your home or business.
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Should the Hospitality Industry Require Employees and Guests to Be Vaccinated?

December 23, 2021 via HospitalityNet

Clearly, there is a significant difference in how Covid 19's Delta, and other variants, affected the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Consequently, employers / business leaders are faced with a difficult decision: should their companies require employees, guests, venders, and others who enter property to be vaccinated?
 
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Biden Administration Looks to Let More Immigrant Workers Temporarily into the U.S.
December 21, 2021 via Restaurant Business

The Biden administration said [December 21] that it will take the unprecedented step of making 20,000 more temporary work permits available near-term to ease the labor shortage hamstringing non-agricultural businesses such as restaurants and hotels.

The joint effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) would make 20,000 additional H-2B visas available to immigrants who want to work within the United States for a relatively short stretch.
 
 
 
 
 
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