Episode 17: Predictable Schedules And Comp Time – The Next Wage & Hour Frontiers?
Throughout the country, large municipalities are laboratories of democracy. New and innovative policies introduced in one market are often exported to others, and ultimately replicated at the state and federal level. This...more
Effective January 1, 2021, the moratorium on private actions against certain employers for violating the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance has ended. The ordinance went into effect on July 1, 2020, but the city had placed a...more
Chicago employers in certain covered industries soon will need to comply with the numerous advance scheduling and predictability pay requirements set forth in the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Chicago’s Fair Workweek Ordinance goes into effect on July 1. The law will require covered employers to provide covered employees ten days’ notice of their work schedule. Save for certain exceptions,...more
For about 20 years, I have been the Connecticut Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section Legislative Liaison, and since I have been at Pullman & Comley, I have written in this blog about developments at the...more
With the July 1 deadline looming and most businesses still closed or operating at a reduced capacity, the Chicago City Council has amended the Fair Workweek (FWW) Ordinance to delay the filing of private employee lawsuits...more
The Chicago City Council is currently considering a pair of proposed ordinances that are intended to address concerns prompted by the current COVID-19 crisis. ...more
Chicago passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance in July 2019. This Ordinance, which is set to take effect on July 1, 2020, requires covered employers to provide advance notice of work schedules to their covered employees,...more
On April 21, 2020, the Mayor’s Office of Labor issued a post restating the key provisions of the city of Philadelphia’s new Fair Workweek law, which took effect on April 1 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis. Progressive elected officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento have proposed laws that may soon require certain retail and other employers to provide employees with predictive scheduling or pay a price. To our...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On the heels of becoming the first state to mandate severance for workers laid off as part of a mass layoff, New Jersey just may become the second state to pass a statewide predictable scheduling law if a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Weeks before the Fair Workweek Law was set to become effective, the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Labor announced that the law’s effective date would be postponed until April 1, 2020. Additionally, the...more
On Friday, November 29, 2019, the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Labor postponed the effective date of the Philadelphia Fair Workweek Employment Standards Ordinance from January 1, 2020 to April 1, 2020. The Ordinance imposes...more
The Illinois legislature has been quite active, leaving many employers wondering: “Is Illinois the new California?” Some measures, like Chicago’s Fair Workweek Ordinance, are new, while other laws amended existing statutes,...more
• The Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance will affect Chicago employers across a wide reach of industries. • The Ordinance will impose a burden on employers to plan and notify employees of their work schedules up to two weeks...more
On July 24, 2019, the Chicago City Council approved the proposed Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, which will require employers to provide advance notice of employee work schedules and premium pay for schedule changes. Once...more
On July 24, 2019, Chicago passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, which will dramatically change how many Chicago employers schedule work....more
On July 24, 2019, the Chicago City Council passed and Mayor Lightfoot approved a predictive scheduling ordinance known as the Fair Workweek Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). It becomes effective on July 1, 2020. The following...more
Illinois employers must be cognizant of new Illinois laws including bans on salary history inquiries, restrictions on artificial intelligence interview programs, mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, limitations on...more
The Chicago City Council approved the “Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance” on July 24, 2019. The Ordinance goes into effect on July 1, 2020. The Ordinance will require employers covered by the Ordinance to provide advanced...more
In the most expansive predictive scheduling law in the country to date, Chicago City officials passed the “Fair Workweek Ordinance” on July 24, 2019, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has indicated she would quickly sign the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Wednesday, the Chicago City Council passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, arguably the most expansive law of its kind. When the law takes effect in July 2020, it will require covered employers to...more
City Council approved the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance by unanimous vote on July 24, 2019. This past May marked the third time such an ordinance was proposed in City Council, and the language ultimately approved by City...more
The proposed Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, introduced in the City Council on May 29, 2019, would require certain Chicago employers to publish employees’ schedules two weeks in advance and limit their ability to change...more
The City of Chicago has flirted with enacting a “Fair Workweek” ordinance, aimed at ensuring predictable work schedules for workers, for several years. While the ordinance failed to gain traction in its prior iterations, this...more