Resources
HALA members enjoy many benefits from Day 1.
Explore them here—by category. Click the links to learn more. And join HALA to take advantage.
Advocacy
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Proposed Tourism-Only Minimum Wage Hike
To follow this activity, refer to Council file 14-1371-S13.
Annual Hotel Police Permit
This new program is in development, as required by the Responsible Hotel Ordinance.
Inside Safe Program - Supporting Unhoused Angelenos
The City of Los Angeles is seeking participation from hotels and motels. Would you like to get involved?
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Short-Term Rentals
The County Board of Supervisors passed this Ordinance, by consent, on April 9, 2024. It is now law.
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Hotel-Only Minimum Wage Ballot Measure RW
On March 5, 2024, voters approved this measure:
YES: 53.12% (39,904 votes)
NO: 46.88% (35,211 votes)
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Hotel Minimum Wage Ordinance
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Hotel-Only Minimum Wage, Square Footage Restriction, & Retention Ordinance
This Ordinance failed to collect the necessary signatures.
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Hotel-Only Minimum Wage Ballot Measure
This Measure would have singled out the hotel industry for wage controls and other operational requirements not imposed on other industries. It failed to collect the necessary signatures due to lack of voter support.
Hotel & Vacation Rental 7% Affordable Housing Tax Measure
This Measure would have singled out the hotel industry for special taxes not imposed on other industries. It failed to collect the necessary signatures due to lack of voter support.
Networking
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09 April 2024
Join us for HALA’s Stars of the Industry Awards—a celebration of the best and brightest in our industry! It’s happening on April 9th, 2024, at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
Last year’s Stars of the Industry Awards was the very first of its kind—a hospitality-only awards event for the L.A. region. Six hospitality professionals and two properties won prizes for exemplifying the very best of the Los Angeles-area hotel community.
Ready for the next Stars of the Industry Awards? Check back here for updates. Additional details will be announced soon!
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Calling all hotel employers and job seekers in the L.A. County area!
The Hotel Association of Los Angeles, CHLA, and the AHLA Foundation are once again joining forces to host a career fair this spring. Attend a fireside chat; network with the folks who make our industry tick; and find your dream job at the hiring fair.
Are you enrolled in a local community-based hospitality training program? Are you attending community college? Or are you simply an eager local job seeker?
Now’s your chance to get your start in L.A.’s exciting hotel industry!
Check back here soon for details and registration.
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June 2024 (Date TBA)
Last year, HALA partnered with L.A. Tourism and the City of Los Angeles City Tourism Department to host the first annual L.A. City Hall Tourism Day. It was a great opportunity for attendees to meet with local lawmakers to discuss issues impacting our industry.
This year’s event promises to be even better. Don’t miss your chance to participate in the dialogue and share your perspective.
Check back here soon for event details.
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October 2024 (Date TBA)
The annual HALA Golf Classic is our signature networking event, giving golfers at all skill levels the chance to participate, have fun, and make connections.
Last year’s event was held at the Pacific Palms Resort. Hospitality professionals and vendors from across our industry enjoyed a full day of networking and friendly competition—complete with trophies and prizes!
We’re fast at work planning the 2024 event—so check back here soon for event details.
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December 2024 (Date TBA)
It’s never too early to start planning the next party—or HALA-Day Party, as we like call it!
So, we’re already thinking about December’s end-of-year gathering. The HALA Board of Directors welcomes you to join us in celebration of 2024—to look back at the year that’s been. We’ll commemorate our industry’s victories, show gratitude for our successes, think good thoughts about 2025, and do what we always do: network!
Perhaps we’re getting ahead of ourselves—but won’t you plan to join us for these winter festivities?
Check back here soon for event details.
Training
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The State of California requires companies with five or more employees to provide sexual harassment prevention training for both supervisory and non-supervisory roles. All team members must complete the training course every two years. New hires and newly promoted employees must complete it within six months of being hired/promoted. HALA members get 15% off.
Request Discount Code & Instructions: mail@hotelassociationla.com
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The Responsible Beverage Service Training Act requires anyone who serves alcohol, manages servers, delivers alcohol, takes orders, or checks IDs at a business that serves alcohol onsite to be trained to serve alcohol legally and safely to the public. The law authorized the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to establish the Responsible Beverage Server Training Program (RBSTP). Under the program, every alcohol server and their manager must have a valid Responsible Beverage Server (RBS) certification from the ABC.
HALA members get 20% off the $15 per-person cost of the approved training program, ServSafe.
Request Discount Code & Instructions: mail@hotelassociationla.com
Note: If you’re training more than 100 employees, contact Elisa Cain, Regional Sales Manager, for more discounts: ecain@restaurant.org or 480.235.6706.
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HALA is proud to partner with the Los Angeles County Departments of Public Health to help train 500,000 Los Angeles County residents in Hands-Only CPR!
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In partnership with Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST), HALA is proud to offer our members in-depth, online human trafficking training for free—so take advantage.
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This helpful walkthrough gives you the basics on this relatively new ordinance. Watch a video of the session or review the presentation deck at your own pace. Presented by Keith Grossman, Partner, Hirschfeld Kraemer and Jeff Engel, CEO, LocationTech.
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HALA and CHLA have designed a series of Webinars, hosted by industry and legal professionals, to provide additional guidance to hoteliers on a wide range of topics. See recordings and decks from past sessions, as well as register for upcoming ones.
Tools
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The Hotel Associatoin of Los Angeles has partnered with Class Action Capital, a market leader in class action settlement claim management. Class Action Capital is already successfully working with a very large number of hotels and state associations across the country helping to recover substantial refunds on their behalf from several recent class action settlements. Hotel Association of Los Angeles Association will now offer these value-added services to its members.
Many hotels do not have the time, resources, or relevant data available to file a settlement claim and Class Action Capital will work with them to submit a fully comprehensive claim recovery, while minimizing the use of their employees’ time, internal resources and the risk of errors when managing claims themselves. Class Action Capital’s pricing model is simple in that we work on a commission basis whereby we receive a percentage of the client’s financial recovery and only receive our fee when our client recovers. Once you sign up for our claim management service, we will immediately get to work building and preparing a comprehensive claim.
The bottom line is we work to best position each client’s recovery from a settlement while minimizing our client’s time, use of internal resources, and the risk of mistake if they were to take on claims management on their own. Click here for a listing of applicable settlements and our claim authorization form.
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For information about public health regulations such as COVID-19, food safety, water safety, inspections, etc., please visit your local public health department Website—or you can contact HALA with specific questions.
L.A. County Department of Public Health
Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services
Pasadena Public Health Department
COVID-19 persists. See our Pledge to Fight COVID.
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Get critical compensation data from your peers in the hospitality industry. HALA members are entitled to exclusive discounts: 55% off the participant price of the Salary.com Hospitality Survey and up to 60% off Salary.com’s Pay Gap Overview. For your HALA member discount, use discount code CHLA55 during checkout.
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HALA is proud to introduce The OnHold Experience as a new member benefit! They provide professionally produced telephone “on hold” marketing campaigns. Many California hotel properties are already using this service—now it’s your turn to give it a try. We’ve negotiated a free 60-Day Test Drive as the first step, followed by a discounted rate exclusive to our membership—and there’s a “cancel at any time” clause to remove all risk.
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In partnership with the State of California’s Save Our Water program, these free door hangers give guests the option to delay room-cleaning services until check-out. While the goal is to reduce demand on California’s precious water supply, these door hangers can also help lower your operating costs, potentially reducing housekeeping workload and water/energy usage.
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To help hotels identify panic button service providers, HALA and CHLA have developed a list of our partners and members that offer panic button systems and training.
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Community-Police Advisory Boards (C-PABs) help establish solid, two-way communication between the police and the neighborhoods they serve. C-PABs give community members the opportunity to provide information and advice to their local police stations and take information from the Police Department back to the community.
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The City’s Project Roomkey initiative helps provide shelter to adults experiencing homelessness.
Contact LAHSA: Website or 800.548.6047.
Saving Money
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Earn cash back on all your commonly purchased items. Drastically lower the cost of supplies and F&B purchases while increasing quality and service. This is collective buying power!
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Through our partnership with the California Hotel & Lodging Association, HALA provides members with access to HealthiestYou from Teladoc at a members-only negotiated price of $19.99 per employee per month with $0 copays. Coverage includes general medicine, mental health, dermatology, back pain, and expert medical opinions for each employee and their entire family.
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Get critical compensation data from your peers in the hospitality industry. HALA members are entitled to exclusive discounts: 55% off the participant price of the Salary.com Hospitality Survey and up to 60% off Salary.com’s Pay Gap Overview. For your HALA member discount, use discount code CHLA55 during checkout.
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HALA is proud to introduce The OnHold Experience as a new member benefit! They provide professionally produced telephone “on hold” marketing campaigns. Many California hotel properties are already using this service—now it’s your turn to give it a try. We’ve negotiated a free 60-Day Test Drive as the first step, followed by a discounted rate exclusive to our membership—and there’s a “cancel at any time” clause to remove all risk.
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In partnership with the State of California’s Save Our Water program, these free door hangers give guests the option to delay room-cleaning services until check-out. While the goal is to reduce demand on California’s precious water supply, these door hangers can also help lower your operating costs, potentially reducing housekeeping workload and water/energy usage.
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To help hotels identify panic button service providers, HALA and CHLA have developed a list of our partners and members that offer panic button systems and training.
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The State of California requires companies with five or more employees to provide sexual harassment prevention training for both supervisory and non-supervisory roles. All team members must complete the training course every two years. New hires and newly promoted employees must complete it within six months of being hired/promoted. HALA members get 15% off.
Request Discount Code & Instructions: mail@hotelassociationla.com
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The Responsible Beverage Service Training Act requires anyone who serves alcohol, manages servers, delivers alcohol, takes orders, or checks IDs at a business that serves alcohol onsite to be trained to serve alcohol legally and safely to the public. The law authorized the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to establish the Responsible Beverage Server Training Program (RBSTP). Under the program, every alcohol server and their manager must have a valid Responsible Beverage Server (RBS) certification from the ABC.
HALA members get 20% off the $15 per-person cost of the approved training program, ServSafe.
Request Discount Code & Instructions: mail@hotelassociationla.com
Note: If you’re training more than 100 employees, contact Elisa Cain, Regional Sales Manager, for more discounts: ecain@restaurant.org or 480.235.6706.
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In partnership with Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST), HALA is proud to offer our members in-depth, online human trafficking training for free—so take advantage.