§ 14.26.050 — Panic buttons

14.26.050 - Panic buttons

A. At no cost to the employee, a hotel employer shall provide a panic button to each hotel employee assigned to work in a guest room or assigned to deliver items to a guest room. B. A hotel employer shall provide access to a panic button to each employee of an ancillary hotel business who is assigned to work in a guest's room or to make deliveries to a guest's room. The employer shall provide access to the panic button at no cost to the ancillary hotel business or to the employee of the ancillary hotel business. C. When a hotel employee or an employee of an ancillary hotel business activates a panic button, the hotel employer must immediately deploy a security guard, hotel employer representative, or another hotel employee to render assistance. D. An employer shall not take adverse action against an employee for using the panic button to request on-scene assistance during an incident of actual or perceived violent or harassing conduct or other emergency in the employee's presence or for ceasing work and leaving an area of perceived danger to await assistance after activating the panic button. E. As a time-limited measure, employers may provide a panic button to each employee that complies with state requirements for panic buttons under Chapter 392, Laws of 2019 through December 31, 2020 and thereafter must provide a panic button to each employee that complies with all requirements of this Chapter 14.26.

(Ord. 125923, § 1, 2019.)