It also comes the same week more than a dozen big hotel chains — including Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt — announced they would provide personal safety devices by 2020 to all employees who deal one-on-one with guests, to protect them harassment and assault. That announcement followed the enactment of panic button laws in a handful of cities, including Chicago, which as of July 1 has required all hotels in the city to provide panic buttons to housekeepers. That law was pushed by UNITE HERE Local 1.