Nevada lawmakers pass a bill that adds protections for hospitality workers, but also shields businesses from liability amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The bill’s passage was hailed as a victory by the Culinary Workers Union, the state’s largest and most politically influential union, which has spent months calling for state officials to protect hospitality workers. The bill also requires more frequent cleaning of elevator buttons, key cards and other high-touch areas in hotels and casino resorts in Reno and Las Vegas and regular inspections of those resorts by state health officials.
Since March, union officials say that 32 Culinary and Bartender Union workers or their immediate family members have died from COVID-19 and that 352 have been hospitalized with the virus.
The bill requires hotels and casinos to notify employees within 24 hours if they were in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus.Mariza Rocha, 40, a utility porter at The Strat Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, said that after she tested positive for the coronavirus in July, she did not hear from her employers for a week, even after she called them multiple times. Golden Entertainment, which operates The Strat, did not immediately comment.
“This is going to bring a lot of people peace, so they don’t feel like that,” she said. “The point is not to get COVID, but to prevent it, and I think this is going to do that.”
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