{"id":426701,"date":"2026-08-07T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:40:09","slug":"anaheim-marriott-union-wins-2-75-million-settlement-in-recalled-workers-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426701\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Marriott union wins $2.75 million settlement in recalled workers’ case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hotel workers laid off by the Anaheim Marriott gathered Tuesday at Unite Here Local 11\u2019s offices in Garden Grove to mark a hard-fought victory dating to the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Following an investigation, the California Labor Commission secured a $2.75 million settlement from hotel executives over alleged violations of the state\u2019s Right to Recall law, which gives laid-off workers priority rehire rights based on seniority.<\/p>\n

The settlement covers 29 employees, including room attendants, cooks and servers and bell attendants, who were among the most impacted. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen workers stand together, accountability is possible,\u201d Ada Brice\u00f1o, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, said during a press conference. \u201cBehind this settlement are families who struggle to pay rent, put food on the table and make ends meet. While this cannot erase those hardships, it delivers long overdue justice to every employee. The message is simple: respect workers and follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The settlement comes two years after the commission initially slapped the resort-area hotel with a $12.45 million citation<\/a> for damages, interest and penalties for failing to rehire more than two dozen workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the pandemic hit, I was laid off,\u201d recalled Roberto Medina, a maintenance engineer. \u201cI didn\u2019t fully understand why. I waited for a call back to resume work, but I did not get a call back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medina instead drove for Uber, took odd jobs and went back to school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe settlement will be very helpful,\u201d he said. \u201cThe situation I endured was difficult. I had to pay bills and support family members. My mom was in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Marriott spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

An investigation began in June 2022, after the Labor Commission received a complaint from Unite Here Local 11.<\/p>\n

Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower explained that the state recall law levies a $500 daily penalty for violations.<\/p>\n

\"California <\/p>\n

Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower speaks at the news conference regarding the settlement the Marriott settlement.<\/p>\n

(Eric Licas)<\/p>\n

The commission reviewed hotel employment records and identified 29 employees who weren\u2019t given an offer to return in the time-frame prescribed by the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [state] Legislature identified a process to make sure when businesses opened up, the most senior workers had an opportunity to return to that job if they chose to,\u201d Garcia-Brower said. \u201cIn this case, we found that the Anaheim Marriott failed to comply with the right to recall law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the impacted members are back on the job. <\/p>\n

\u201cBringing forward legal complaints is not transactional. It is hard. It takes time,\u201d Garcia-Brower said. \u201cWe could not move this case forward without the workers.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hotel workers laid off by the Anaheim Marriott gathered Tuesday at Unite Here Local 11\u2019s offices in Garden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[83654,163,165,170035,164,170037,1436,1586,828,721,972,99315,170036,15157,5675,225,102348,4455],"class_list":["post-426701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alleged-violation","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-marriott-union","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california-labor-commission","tag-case","tag-commission","tag-employee","tag-law","tag-local","tag-odd-job","tag-recall-law","tag-right","tag-settlement","tag-state","tag-unite","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}