Laid-off Hotel Bel-Air employees planned a protest and march Friday to demand their jobs back.
The hotel reopened Friday after a two-year, multi-million dollar renovation project.
In 2009, when the hotel announced the renovation, the workers claim they were abruptly told they would be laid-off. Many have since reapplied for their old jobs, but more than 100 say they were refused or are still waiting to hear back.
The former workers asked employees from other hotels across the city to join them in Friday's protest.
Protest organizers also arranged for buses to shuttle Occupy LA demonstrators from their temporary camp in Downtown LA to the hotel.
The group planned to picket outside the hotel and then march to Sunset Boulevard and Stone Canyon Road, where a rally will be held at 6:00 p.m.
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