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Service Charges

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real-estate1 year ago

"The Regret of Leasehold Flats: A Cautionary Tale"

Leasehold property owners in the UK, like Liz Winstanley and Anna, are facing challenges with poor communication, inadequate repairs, and unjustified service charges. The government is debating the Leasehold and Freehold (Reform) Bill to address these issues, aiming to provide greater transparency for service charges and make new leases a standard 990 years. However, campaigners argue that the proposed reforms don't go far enough and call for the complete abolition of the leasehold system in favor of commonhold, giving flat owners more control over their buildings.

business2 years ago

Marriott Hotel withholds $9 million in tips from workers.

San Francisco's Marriott Hotel has been ordered by a judge to pay around $9 million in withheld fees to hundreds of workers who served food and drink at banquets from 2012 through April 2017. The hotel illegally kept the fees, which customers reasonably understood to be tips for food servers. The workers' lawyer said this was the first case to go to trial since a state appeals court ruled in 2019 that service charges belonged to the employees under California law if they were reasonably viewed as tips by the customers who paid them.