Historic Decision: Hotel Bel-Air Ordered to Pay $10’s of Millions in Back Wages, Offer Reinstatement to 152 Former Employees, and Recognize Union UNITE HERE Local 11

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Hotel Bel-Air to pay potentially tens of millions of dollars to over a hundred of its former employees. The court upheld the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s finding that the luxury hotel violated federal labor law when it refused to rehire 152 former employees following a temporary closure for remodeling in order to rid itself of the union, UNITE HERE Local 11, that had represented the hotel’s workers fo