UNITE HERE is fighting for a just recovery – a recovery that ensures that people are not locked out of hospitality jobs they've held for decades due to race, gender, age, union affiliation or any other form of discrimination.

Our union has successfully negotiated recall rights and extensions for thousands of union hospitality workers and has advocated for legislation that gives recall rights to union and non-union hospitality workers. That means workers will be called back to work – not replaced – when business comes back.

These recall ordinances provide hospitality workers that were laid-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic the right to be recalled to work in order of seniority when business resumes or reopens. The retention ordinances protect workers’ jobs when there is a change of ownership or management at the property within two years from the declaration of emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is the current list of the enacted recall or retention policies: