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Marta M. Fernandez

Global Hospitality Group® and Labor & Employment Global Hospitality Advisor: Labor Law: Before Closing Your Hotel

When properties are closed for renovations or conversions, employers must take special care in dealing with workforce issues, particularly if the property’s workforce is unionized. The following discussion points may help hotel owners and their labor counsel to set the optimum strategy for their property. What kind of property will the hotel become upon its […]

Global Hospitality Group® Global Hospitality Advisor: The Employer Wins! Union Withdraws Complaint

JMBM hotel labor lawyer Marta Fernandez writes about The Hotel Group’s successful attempt to hire the workforce of their choice upon re-opening a renovated hotel. Ms. Fernandez represented The Hotel Group before the NLRB. As the demand for hotel rooms continues to grow, hotel developers and owners across the country are acquiring, renovating and repositioning […]

Global Hospitality Group® and Labor & Employment Global Hospitality Advisor: The Labor Pains of Hotel Closings

Hotel closings are hitting record levels, but for all the right reasons! Unlike closings caused by the “great real estate depression” of the early 1990s, hotels are closing today for positive reasons: major rehab and construction projects, conversions to condo hotel or residential condos and expansion. Hotel developers and owners are finding that construction is […]