Though New York has been scrambling to get back on its feet in recent months following the pandemic, some areas continue to suffer, such as the hospitality industry.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a requirement that New York City hotels pay their non-managerial employees $500 in severance pay every week, for each week after October 11, 2021 that the employees remain laid off.

Last month, Eric Adams, the presumptive 110th mayor of New York City, stood in front of a boarded-up hotel in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to lay out his plan to fight the growing homelessness problem.

NEW YORK — Denise Matthew says her desk looks exactly the same as she left it back on March 18, 2020.

Hotel owners sue NYC over new law requiring severance for workers,

On a nondescript corner in Brooklyn, sandwiched between on-ramps for the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, a long-vacant hotel formerly run by the Jehovah’s Witnesses is starting a new chapter.

New York’s hotel owners are suing the city to stop a new law mandating pandemic-ravaged hotels to pay a weekly severance for its furloughed employees if they remain closed after the end of the month.

A group of New York City hotel owners is suing the city over a new law requiring them to pay workers severance benefits if they were fired under circumstances related to the pandemic.