Sonia Molina Sanchez, worked as housekeeper at the superstar hotspot resort Chateau Marmont for 10 decades. She will in no way forget about the night time she was sexually harassed by a visitor.
“I knocked on a guest’s door and went inside of, and as quickly as I went within anything did not experience proper,” said Molina Sanchez. “The guest was lying in bed as if he was about to go to sleep. I turned around and seemed at him, and when I looked at him he was staring at me although masturbating. I felt violated, truly disturbed, and just entirely in shock.”
She described the incident to her management, but practically nothing was finished. The guest was permitted to carry on staying at the lodge.
Molina Sanchez was laid off through the beginning of the pandemic and is still waiting around to be recalled to her job. She is one particular of a lot of resort employees in Los Angeles advocating for a metropolis-vast ballot petition that would mandate basic safety protections for lodge personnel, restrict workloads, established wage standards, and lengthen worker retention guidelines.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, hotel employees have been battling for motels to present workers with panic buttons to guard them from sexual harassment and assault on the job. The ballot initiative would mandate that all resorts in LA to institute panic buttons and have a stability guard on web page to answer to any calls from staff, similar to ordinances passed in quite a few bordering metropolitan areas.
“Had I had a panic button back again then, I would have been in a position to push it to get the assist that I required. But I didn’t have it, [because] it was not offered to me,” she extra.
Martha Moran, a housekeeper at Chateau Marmont for 33 several years, who is also nonetheless waiting around to be recalled back to her career and has a pending claim towards the hotel in excess of a statewide recall ordinance, also says she experienced sexual harassment at work.
“I had an knowledge exactly