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Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source City of Los Angeles
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Los Angeles ordinance provides retail workers with a more predictable work schedule. It ensures that workers are notified of their work schedule 14 days in advance, mandates rest between shifts, and compensates workers when schedule changes occur. ...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source City of Los Angeles
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Los Angeles ordinance provides retail workers with a more predictable work schedule. It ensures that workers are notified of their work schedule 14 days in advance, mandates rest between shifts, and compensates workers when schedule changes occur. ...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2024
Level City or Town
State(s) Illinois
Source City of Chicago
Policy Areas Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
Chicago's updated paid leave and sick and safe leave rules mandate employers to provide paid leave at the prevailing wage rate, grant paid leave to employees who work remotely within the city, and allow unused paid leave and paid sick leave to carry over between benefits years. They...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2024
Level City or Town
State(s) Illinois
Source City of Chicago
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
Chicago's updated paid leave and sick and safe leave rules mandate employers to provide paid leave at the prevailing wage rate, grant paid leave to employees who work remotely within the city, and allow unused paid leave and paid sick leave to carry over between benefits years. They...

Type Policy Brief or Report, Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2020
Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies
State(s) All States
Source The Aspen Institute
Policy Areas Economic Justice
The Aspen Institute's Economic Opportunities Program developed this Job Quality Tools Library to provide actionable tools – including checklists, instructions, and guidelines – to help leaders adopt practices to strengthen job quality in their own organizations, in the businesses...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Pennsylvania
Source City of Philadelphia
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Philadelphia ordinance ensures that workers receive predictable work schedules. It provides workers with a good faith estimate of their work schedule, implements predictability pay for employer-initiated schedule changes, and offers workers additional hours. ...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Pennsylvania
Source City of Philadelphia
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Philadelphia ordinance ensures that workers receive predictable work schedules. It provides workers with a good faith estimate of their work schedule, implements predictability pay for employer-initiated schedule changes, and offers workers additional hours. ...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2023
Level City or Town
State(s) Illinois
Source City of Chicago
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
The updated Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance doubles workers' paid time off, allocating 40 hours of paid sick leave and 40 hours of paid leave for unspecified purposes. It also requires large employers to pay out all unused paid leave upon an employee's separation...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Community Development, Public Spaces, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
Outdated workplace policies have failed to keep pace with the demands on today's workforce, limiting our economic growth....

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level National
State(s) Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin
Source Center for Popular Democracy
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Unpredictable and unstable work schedules for Starbucks workers leads to stress, exhaustion, and higher costs for workers. All levels of governments should work to ensure predictable and stable work schedules, adequate rest between shifts, immediate accrual of paid sick leave, guaranteed...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2023
Level City or Town
State(s) Illinois
Source City of Chicago
Policy Areas Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
The updated Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance doubles workers' paid time off, allocating 40 hours of paid sick leave and 40 hours of paid leave for unspecified purposes. It also requires large employers to pay out all unused paid leave upon an employee's separation...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
The retail sector is an integral part of the Los Angeles landscape with almost half a million workers in the county, and 147,157 workers in the city. Retail makes up one-tenth of the private sector workforce in the county and is its second largest employer. Yet more than half of the...

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