LOS ANGELES, March 18 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles has cost hotel workers on Century Boulevard in Los Angeles millions in lost wages, a pro-union group said Tuesday.
A city law requires 13 hotels on Century to pay workers a higher hourly rate than in other city hotels, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Seven of the hotels filed suit to protest the law, costing approximately 2,000 workers $4.7 million in lost income, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy reported.
The law was approved in January 2007 and has cost each worker between $350 and $4,400, the group said.
The suit is scheduled to be reviewed by the California Supreme Court next month. However, if the court refuses to hear the case, the hotels will petition to have the law repealed, the paper said.
"If they decide to start collecting signatures, we want this information out there as part of the debate," alliance spokesman Danny Feingold told the paper.
