Weekly Brief #41: Hotel Safety Threats, Unions vs. "Worker Centers", and Major Risks to Traveling Employees

[Stephen Barth, HospitalityLawyer.com]

Legal & Risk Management Solutions for the Global Travel & Hospitality Industries April 3, 2014 Five Ways Your Safety at Hotels Can Be Compromised There are certain, reasonable expectations we have when paying for a hotel room, such as a good night's sleep, clean sheets, decent water pressure and the assurance that no one is going to break into our hotel room and make off with our iPods, laptops, wallets or jewelry. Read more. When is a Union Not a Union? When It’s a “Worker Center.” The fast-food industry has fallen prey to coordinated demonstrations by a number of loosely affiliated groups, rallying around wages, benefits and other conditions. The strategy invoked by these so-called “worker centers ” (or “alt-unions”) is not altogether new... Read more. The Risky Business of Travel Employees traveling internationally can create remunerative results and attain a reinvigorated pleasure in traveling as a representative of the company. Traveling across the pond for business purposes may also result in an onslaught of predicaments for the company. Read more. "I love what Digital Globe has done with TomNod.com, where any viewer can be an analyst. They can see satellite images and participate in searching for downed aircraft by tagging items; it’s called ‘crowdsourcing,’ and it allows anyone to be part of the process."  Bruce McIndoe, CEO of iJET Texas Leads Nation in Employment Discrimination Cases To Succeed in Hospitality, Focus on the Customer How to Move Your Business Into the Digital Age Search for MH370 Resumes as Bad Weather Approaches Is Air Travel Too Safe? A Look at Global Travel Trends No longer want to receive these emails? You can unsubscribe. Copyright 2013 HospitalityLawyer.com, All rights reserved. - 2450 Louisiana St., Suite 400-416, Houston, TX 77006