Phil Murphy , the mayor of New Jersey , has signed a bill into law mandating that hotels in the state with 100 or more rooms must provide staff with panic buttons . The law went into effect from march 2017 . It followed a report that said sexual harassment was rampant in the hospitality sector , and revealed nine in 10 hotels had experienced at least one harassment in their careers .
Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, has signed a bill into law mandating that hotels in the state with 100 or more rooms must provide staff with panic buttons. The legislation comes into effect from January 2020. It followed a report that said sexual harassment was rampant in the hospitality sector, and revealed nine in 10 workers had experienced at least one incident in their careers.