§ 16.59.010. Findings and purpose.

A.

The City Council finds that the prospect of massive displacement of the large existing workforces at food and beverage concessions at the Long Beach Airport and Long Beach Convention Center would likely cause severe injury to the City's economy and impose significant burdens upon society such as welfare and public health expenses and security risks at such facilities. The City Council finds this policy is the only realistic means of preventing such displacement.

B.

The City Council finds that the regulation of worker retention at food and beverage concessions should proceed initially only at the Airport and Convention Center due to factors unique to the businesses at such facilities, including their superior location and ability to pay thanks to large City investments and City policies limiting access to such facilities for competitors, the competency of their existing workforces (including their security clearances and demonstrated record in preserving Airport security), the greater likelihood of mass displacement at these workplaces compared to most others within the City (especially given the large number of persons capable of taking these jobs), and the negative impact on City revenues should new employers refuse to rehire existing workers and thereby spur boycott activities by displaced workers and their organizations.

C.

The City Council wishes to fully assess economic and social impacts of regulating these businesses initially before including any other businesses, and thus to proceed in a fully-informed incremental manner.

D.

The purpose of establishing worker retention requirements at the Airport and Convention Center is to decrease worker turnover and instability in the workplace. The consequential benefits of such measures are the improvement of the quality of service to the City, the traveling public, and other users of the Airport and Convention Center.

E.

This Chapter is not intended to conflict with federal or State law. It is the intention of the City Council that this Chapter be interpreted to be compatible with federal and State enactments and in furtherance of the public purposes which those enactments encompass.

( ORD-13-0031 , § 1, 2013)