Which also means it's pretty much over for people like this, too. From the end of the article:

Former hotel worker Oscar Melara, 60, had been working at the Luxe Rodeo Drive location for 39 years, starting before the Harkham family took over the property. He began his career as a dishwasher and worked his way up to cook.

The hotel had been closed since March when the pandemic struck, but Melara and his co-workers held out hope that it, like several other hotels in the L.A. area, would eventually reopen and rehire them.

Over the years his co-workers had become his second family, he said, and the $22 an hour he earned was enough to pay his bills and send money to his sister in El Salvador to help her make ends meet.

Then the letter from Harkham arrived, saying it was over.

“When you work most of your life for a place and it closes, it’s not fair,” Melara said.