Seattle, WA Hotel Workers Poster

The Seattle, WA Hotel Workers Poster includes the Notice of Rights for Employees of Ancillary Hotel Businesses and the Notice of Rights for Hotel Employees. The two notices cover the following four hotel employee protection laws:

• The Protecting Hotel Employees from Injury Ordinance covers employers that own, control, or operate a Seattle hotel or motel with 100 or more guest rooms; and ancillary hotel businesses* of 50 or more employees worldwide. This Ordinance limits the workload or hourly employees who clean the guest rooms of a covered hotel or motel. It limits the workload by restricting the amount of floor space that an employee can clean in a day, creating consent requirements for team cleaning, and requiring premium pay if an employee cleans more than the law’s limit.
• The Improving Access to Medical Care for Hotel Employees Ordinance covers employers that own, control, or operate a Seattle hotel or motel with 100 or more guest rooms; and ancillary hotel businesses of 50 or more employees worldwide. The Ordinance requires covered employers to make monthly healthcare expenditures to, or on behalf of, covered employees to increase their access to medical care. The healthcare expenditures are adjusted each year.
• The Hotel Employees Safety Protections Ordinance covers employers that own, control, or operate a Seattle hotel or motel with 60 or more guest rooms; and ancillary hotel businesses of 50 or more employees worldwide. Covered employers are required to take actions to prevent, address, and respond to violent or harassing guest conduct. These actions include:

1. Providing panic buttons to employees
2. Posting signage in guest rooms
3. Implementing policies and procedures that address violent and harassing guest conduct and sharing them with guests and employees
4. Restrictions on assigning employees to work in or make deliveries to a guest’s room where its occupant has been accused of violent or harassing conduct
5. Allowing the survivor employee to be reassigned away from the guest if they wish
6. Providing the survivor employee with paid leave to work with law enforcement and/or to consult with a support person about the incident

• The Hotel Employees Job Retention Ordinance covers employers that own, control, or operate a Seattle hotel or motel with 60 or more guest rooms; and ancillary hotel businesses with 50 or more employees worldwide. The Ordinance requires covered employers to provide advance notice to covered employees of changes in ownership and requires the incoming employer to retain covered employees for a certain time after the change in ownership.

*An ancillary hotel business is a business that has one or more of the following relationships to a covered hotel:

• Routinely contracts with a hotel to provide services in conjunction with the hotel’s purpose;
• Leases or subleases space at the site of the hotel to provide services in conjunction with the hotel’s purpose; or
• Provides food and beverages to hotel guests and to the public and has an entrance within the hotel.

Posting Requirement

Covered employers must display the Seattle, WA Hotel Workers Poster in a visible and accessible location. (Seattle Municipal Codes 14.26-14.29) The poster must be displayed in English and in the primary languages of employees at the workplace.