NEW OFFICE OF LABOR STANDARDS RESOURCES! HOTEL EMPLOYEE PROTECTIONS, SECURE SCHEDULING ORDINANCE, AND DOOR-TO-DOOR OUTREACH

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Seattle Hotel Protections

NEW OFFICE OF LABOR STANDARDS RESOURCES

 

Hotel Employee Protections

The 2025 Notice of Rights for Hotel Employees and the Notice of Rights for Employees of Ancillary Hotel Businesses are available in English and the following translations: Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Farsi, French, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Karen, Karenni, Korean, Nepali, Oromo, Pashto, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tigrigna, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Please visit the OLS Languages webpage here to download the translated versions and the Hotel Employee Protections webpage here for the posters in English.

The Office of Labor Standards (OLS) also announces updated resources under the Improving Access to Medical Care for Hotel Employees Ordinance. In 2025, the rate that hotel employers must pay toward employee healthcare will increase and that change is reflected in these materials.

The Voluntary Healthcare expenditure waiver is also available in many of the above languages.

2025 Notice of Rights for Hotel Employees
2025 Notice of Rights for Employees of Ancillary Hotel Businesses

Secure Scheduling Ordinance

This month OLS marked the seventh anniversary of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance with nearly $9.8 million dollars recovered for over 10,000 Seattle workers since July 1, 2017. As part of our ongoing efforts to support workers' rights through business compliance OLS offers a new Secure Scheduling Ordinance training that can be accessed on the OLS Training webpage here as well as a new Secure Scheduling Model Policy that is also available for download on the OLS Templates webpage here.

For more information on the Secure Scheduling Ordinance please visit the OLS webpage here

Training

Please visit the OLS Training webpage to access recorded webinars on several Seattle labor standards.

To request an in-person training for a business owner or for management employees, contact a business engagement specialist at business.laborstandards@seattle.gov.

OLS Outreach

We’re coming to you! This year, the OLS Engagement Specialists will conduct targeted outreach to Council Districts 1, 2, 3, and 7. So far, members of the Outreach Team have conducted in-person visits to businesses operating out of City Council District 7 as part of OLS’ 2024 Door-to-Door Outreach Campaign. A total of 133 businesses were visited between June 20-26 with the goal of establishing OLS as a trusted resource for information and assistance to the public and increasing general awareness of Seattle’s labor laws among the business community. All businesses received a variety of outreach materials, including an OLS brochure, FAS insert, and OLS key tag. On July 17-24, members of the OLS Outreach Team will be contacting businesses operating out of City Council District 1, followed by District 2 on August 21-28, and District 3 on September 18-25.

For more information on resolved investigations, worker inquiries, financial remedies and more, please visit the OLS data interactive dashboards

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