New home-improvement stores in L.A. need to draw up blueprints to handle day laborers
The required 'operating standards' may include plans to build day-laborer centers.
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance today requiring new large home-improvement stores to make plans for dealing with day laborers who congregate nearby in search of jobs.
The ordinance mandates that stores create "operating standards" for how to handle workers, which could include building day-labor centers with shelter, drinking water, bathrooms and trash cans.
It does not require the big-box stores to construct and pay for such centers.
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