PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Hemal Patel, Business Owner from NYC Hospitality Industry
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Hemal Patel, a small business owner in the NYC hospitality industry, expresses strong opposition to Intro 991-B, citing concerns about its impact on small, independent, and minority-owned hotels. He argues that the bill's restrictions on subcontracting and staffing mandates would harm businesses, workers, and the industry.
- Patel warns that prohibiting subcontractors could put thousands of minority and immigrant workers out of jobs
- He argues that small hotels rely on subcontractors to manage fluctuations in demand and cannot afford full-time staff
- Patel contends that the bill's security objectives are misguided, as third-party security guards are already well-trained and vetted
Hemal Patel
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Good morning, members of city council.
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My name is Helmut Patel.
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My family and I own hotels in New York City metro area.
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I'm here today to express my strong opposition to intro 991.
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A bill that was will have a devastating impact on my livelihood as well as livelihood to my fellow association members.
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Inter 991 Mandey's arbitrary staffing level, its limits operates ability to utilize subcontractors.
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As a pride proud minority, small business owner in the hospitality sector, I'm greatly concerned about the unintended consequences as Bill will have in our industry and specifically small independent minority hotel owners such as myself, our employees, the majority of whom are comfort minority communities.
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For prohibiting the use of subcontractor, you're inadvertently putting thousands of new Yorkers out of work, including minority immigrants who provide services for the hospitality industry, including housekeeping, security, food, and beverage.
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Without third party subconscious, small hotel operators will not be able to accommodate influx of visitors during peak time, especially during nationwide workforce shortage.
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Unlike a large hotel due to a cyclical nature of our business, many small independent minority owned hotels cannot afford to hire, maintain their own full time staff and their challenge to find and retain direct hire part timers when occupancy is high.
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The band sub hunter also counters also runs counter to one of the build state objectives to increase safety and security at hotels.
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3rd party security guards, including individual use in our hotels, are fully trained vetted by agencies that hired them.
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While larger hotels can afford and prefer to hire these positions directly, the broad staffing mandates included in intro 991 do not account for how operations small individual hotels may differ and irresponsible, inappropriate, in effect, that unnecessary costly.
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The biz bill will put thousands of jobs at risk, force many small independent who tells out of business and cause room raising CD to skyrocket.
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Also, in the in February of this year, a homicide involving an escort in occurred in a soho in soho 54 hotel In April, a man was found stabbed in the basement of public hotel on Bowery, and a Dominic Hotel in May, a teenager was shot outside of the hotel.
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Obviously, these hotels are Union Hotels, and it clearly Crime does not discriminate between CBA versus non CBA Hotels.
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IRS accounts and reject interim 991 engage in meaningful constructive dialogue with stakeholders.
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Thank you.
