Featured on Employment Law This Week - New York City has enacted “fair workweek” legislation.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed a package of bills into law limiting scheduling flexibility for fast-food and retail employers. New York City is the third major city in the United States, after San Francisco and Seattle, to enact this kind of legislation. The bills require fast-food employers to provide new hires with good-faith estimates of the number of hours that they will work per week and to pay workers a premium for scheduling changes made less than 14 days in advance.
Watch the segment below, featuring our colleague Jeffrey Landes from Epstein Becker Green. Also see our colleague John O'Connor's recent post, "New York City Tells Fast Food Employees: 'You Deserve a Break Today' by Enacting New Fair Workweek Laws," on the Hospitality Labor and Employment Law blog.