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    PUBLIC TESTIMONY
            Testimony by Hotel Worker on Safe Hotel Act
2:39:22
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114 sec
A hotel worker testifies in support of the Safe Hotel Act, sharing their personal experience of working for a subcontracting agency at a hotel in New York City. The worker describes the positive changes in their working conditions and pay after the subcontracting agency left and they began working directly for the hotel.
- Initially earned $17/hour with the subcontracting agency, feeling unseen and struggling to support their family
 - After the subcontracting agency left, kept their job due to the hotel worker retention law
 - Experienced a 35% pay increase and improved working conditions when hired directly by the hotel
 - Urges the council to pass the Safe Hotel Act to benefit other workers in similar situations
 
                                
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                                            2:39:22
                                        
                                        Good afternoon, counseling members.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:24
                                        
                                        I'm sitting in particular, ma'am.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:26
                                        
                                        I'm our New York City Hotel Agar, and I suffered the safe hotel eggs.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:32
                                        
                                        I'm here to tell the public What happened when are subcontracting agency or hotel in New York City?
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:41
                                        
                                        That is what happened to me and changed my life for better.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:48
                                        
                                        I I used to work for the subcontracting agency at Margarita Bell Reserve in Times Square.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:39:58
                                        
                                        I made just $17 per hour.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:40:02
                                        
                                        It was not easy to support my family on this word, but I had to do a 2 survey to me asking for self contesting, agency, mean feeling, unseen, at work.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:40:22
                                        
                                        Low pay, or heavy, no, heavy work less, and it's strictly to get by when the subcontracting agency left our hotel, I keep my job because of the hotel closure retention law.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:40:42
                                        
                                        Today, I am working regularly for the Margarita Bell I will add the same hotel where everything is different.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:40:52
                                        
                                        My old arose every night by the 35% as soon as the subcontractor live.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:41:01
                                        
                                        I can't pay rent more easily, and I feel safe at work.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:41:07
                                        
                                        Please pass to safe hotel x to the Forte work like for me.
                                    
                                            
                                            2:41:15
                                        
                                        Thank you.