The city of Seattle, Washington, has become the second major local jurisdiction to enact an ordinance requiring large retail and food service establishments to provide their employees with more predictable schedules. The new ordinance, which was signed into law by Mayor Edward Murray on September 29, 2016, will take effect on July 1, 2017.
Seattle now joins San Francisco in requiring covered local retail and food service employers to provide workers with a good faith estimate of hours upon hiring, provide work schedules two weeks in advance, and give additional compensation or “predictability pay” to workers if their hours are changed or if they are asked to work back-to-back shifts that prevent adequate resting time.
A copy of Seattle’s new secure scheduling ordinance is available here.
Members of the Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC) can read more here.