Predictive scheduling mandates require employers to have perfect advance knowledge and employees to act perfectly. It seeks to legislate an impossible result, every minute, every hour, every day. No business can perfectly predict how many customers will come in the door or what they will order. It is very difficult to predict needed staffing and…
Read More »We could say it is a tale of two cities, but we won’t. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing hard in the Big Apple to mandate so-called secured scheduling, almost identical to the edict recently enacted in Seattle. But, de Blasio is specifically looking to target the fast food industry with his mandate. …
Read More »Apparently hell-bent to put small businesses out of business, the Seattle City Council, with the encouragement of Mayor Ed Murray, unanimously adopted a secured scheduling ordinance earlier this week that will become effective on July 1, 2017. The ordinance requires that workers get a minimum two-week advance notice of their work schedules and further provides…
Read More »It isn’t law yet, but it is getting closer. Two Seattle City Councilors along with the Mayor’s Office early this week presented the painful details of the so-called “secured scheduling ordinance” they are pushing. If passed into law, the proposal will require that employers give workers 14 days advance notice of their work schedule and…
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