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At hotels, housekeepers, desk clerks and other employees would see a 48% hike over 3½ years, compared with the $20.32 per hour currently set by the city’s hotel minimum wage law.

On a spring day last year, representatives from dozens of Los Angeles-area hotels gathered for a meeting with the union representing their cleaners, front desk clerks and other workers.

The new contracts include an almost immediate raise of $5 per hour for workers who don’t typically earn tips, including front desk clerks, dishwashers and housekeepers.

The next day, De Castro returned to the hotel, identified himself to the front desk clerk as a guest and said he’d left his keys in his room, Wallace wrote.

A male practice player falsely represented himself to the desk clerk as Love to obtain a duplicate room key.