June 07, 2024
A hotel workers union urged a New York federal court to force a former operator of a shuttered Marriott hotel in Manhattan to pay $6 million in severance pay stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, saying an arbitrator's award in the union's favor must be enforced.
May 01, 2024
The former operator of a shuttered Marriott hotel in Manhattan asked a New York federal judge to stop the city from using a now-ineffective severance law to force it to pay $6 million to a hotel workers union, saying it satisfied its closure-related obligations through a previous $12 million payment.
December 04, 2023
A New York federal judge denied a bid by the former owner of a closed Manhattan hotel to block a labor arbitration hearing on whether it must make an extra $6 million severance payment, saying there's no imminent threat to its constitutional rights because the award is a ways off.