Laundry Attendant

Work description

Breck Commercial Laundry LLC (Breck) is a full-service commercial laundry operation located in Silverthorne, Colorado, the gateway to Summit Countys renowned ski resort corridor. Summit County is home to world-class ski destinations including Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mountain, and Arapahoe Basin, which collectively attract millions of visitors each winter ski season, typically running from late November through mid-April. The Company provides professional laundry services, including washing, drying, and folding of sheets, pillowcases, towels, bath linens, robes, tablecloths, napkins, uniforms, and other hospitality textiles, for hotels, lodges, condominium complexes, restaurants, and other hospitality establishments that serve the regions ski resort clientele. Breck operates year-round and maintains a permanent workforce capable of meeting baseline laundry processing demands during the slower periods of the year. However, Breck experiences a dramatic and recurring surge in business during the winter ski season running from approximately December through mid-April that consistently and substantially exceeds the capacity of its permanent staff. When the ski resorts in Summit County open for the season, hotels and lodges operate at or near full occupancy, generating enormous volumes of linens and hospitality textiles that must be cleaned, processed, and returned on a daily and continuous basis. This seasonal surge constitutes a peakload need as defined under 20 C.F.R. 655.6 and 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(6)(ii)(A): Breck has permanent, year-round employees who perform laundry processing duties at all times, and Breck temporarily requires supplemental workers during its recurring winter peak to handle the volume that its permanent workforce cannot absorb on its own. Brecks historical revenue, laundry volume (pounds processed), and labor hour data for the past three winter seasons clearly establish this recurring seasonal peakload pattern, as reflected in the table below. During the core winter months of December through March, Breck consistently processes hundreds of thousands of pounds of laundry per month at revenue levels that substantially exceed its off-peak period production. By contrast, during the lowest months of the shoulder and off-season, monthly revenues and labor hours fall sharply as resort occupancy declines and the volume of hospitality laundry diminishes correspondingly. The labor hour data iprovided further corroborates Brecks peakload need. During peak winter months, Breck regularly records substantial overtime hours as its permanent workforce strains to meet production demands. For example, during January 2024 Brecks employees logged 12,941 regular hours and 1,526 overtime hours (an overtime rate of approximately 11.8%), and during March 2026 Breck logged 11,213 regular hours and 1,485 overtime hours (approximately 13.2% overtime). By contrast, during the off-peak month of May 2025, Breck logged only 6,615 regular hours and 194 overtime hours. Sustained overtime of this magnitude during the winter season results in employee fatigue, elevated labor costs, increased risk of workplace injury, and reduced operational efficiency, all of which jeopardize Brecks ability to reliably serve its clients during the most critical period of their own business year. Despite ongoing recruitment and retention efforts, Breck has been unable to attract and retain a sufficient number of qualified U.S. workers from the local labor market to meet this seasonal surge.