Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The People's Republic of San Francisco is Now Micro-Managing Employee Schedules of Chain Stores

San Francisco is now the country’s first jurisdiction to limit how chain stores can alter their employees’ schedules.

San Francisco’s new law, which its Board of Supervisors passed Tuesday by unanimous vote, will require any “formula retailer” (retail chain) with 20 or more locations worldwide that employs 20 or more people within the city to provide two weeks’ advance notice for any change in a worker’s schedule. An employer that alters working hours without two weeks’ notice — or fails to notify workers two weeks ahead of time that their schedules won’t change — will be required to provide additional “predictability pay.“ Property service contractors that provide janitorial or security services for these retailers will also need to abide by the new rule, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

In other words, the city will now make it more cumbersome for retailers to adjust to short-term changing conditions like weather or other unexpected events.

In addition to limiting schedule changes, the bill requires employers to pay part-time employees the same starting hourly wage as full-time employees in the same position. Employers must also give part-time employees the same access to time off enjoyed by full-time workers, and equal eligibility for promotion.

What can I say? Harass employers and the robots will continue to come. SEE: Venture Capital is Pouring Money into Minimum Wage Law Defeating Robots

7 comments:

  1. Will the People's Republik require employees to provide their employer with two weeks notice in advance of any kind of change to their schedule or availability? You can bet your ass they will not.

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  2. I'm not sure why anyone would want to live in SF considering that there's much nicer Silicon Valley right next door to it.

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  3. [aka Stargazer] Yea! I can comment again. Thanks.

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  4. Do the employees also have to give 2 weeks notice before changing their schedule, say, to take a sick day?

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  5. At least this destructive policy will be demonstrated on a relatively small scale as a demonstration of what not to do to protect employees... Oh..., what am I thinking? Like anyone cares what the results are, as long as the intentions are good.

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  6. Never has it been more obvious that those in government have never, not once in their lives, had a job in the real world. Let alone run a business of any kind. Especially in an industry like retail. But the imbeciles undoubtedly gave themselves a hearty pat on the pack for their job well done creating such a monstrosity of a burden. I'm so over all of this. I just can't stomach much more.

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  7. This comes down to a question of contracts, specifically the contract between the employee and employer. If it is written into their contract that the employer must give 2 weeks notice, then that is what they must give. If that clause is not in their contract, then the employer should be able to do what they want. Why is this so complicated to those paper pusher politicians?

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