Predictive Scheduling Legislation: Providing Scheduling Certainty For Particular Workers

Predictive scheduling is when an employer provides an employee with their schedule in advance. For employee schedules that frequently fluctuate, part-time employees who do not work full workweeks, or anyone who works for an hourly rate, predictive scheduling can help establish a predictable schedule and help employees better estimate their expected pay for a weekly or monthly period.

Predictive scheduling is largely a response to the challenges associated with on-call scheduling, a workforce management method that availed hourly workers when needed in order to accommodate influxes of customers at irregular times. On-call scheduling offered business owners flexibility, but at the expense of predictable employee schedules.

In the past few years, predictive scheduling laws and regulations have become more common, especially in industries where part-time jobs and minimum wage positions are prominent. Working to develop a seamless and easy predictive scheduling policy can result in happier employees, reduced turnover costs, and a more efficient workflow that still meets the fluctuating needs of your business. Predictive scheduling isn't going away, but it doesn't have to be a challenge; in fact, it could be a great opportunity.

Over the past five years, the United States has seen a wave of new laws aimed at providing employees with more predictable work schedules. These predictive scheduling laws are meant to provide stability to individuals so they can attend to their child care, health, education, and, in many cases, second jobs. While these laws are well-intentioned, they do present significant challenges for employers in terms of staffing, cost, document retention, and general compliance.

Areas Covered

• What is ‘predictive scheduling’?

• General requirements of predictive scheduling laws

• Which states have adopted predictive scheduling laws?

• What employers should be doing to ensure compliance

• Ramifications of non-compliance

• Course Level - Intermediate

Why Should You Attend

Predictive scheduling laws are sweeping across the country, presenting a challenge for employers in the retail, hospitality, and food service industries where flexible scheduling can be critical to successful operations. It can be difficult to stay abreast of advance notice rules, varying pay rules, and specific rest rules. It could be just a matter of time before this legislation is passed in a municipality or state where your organization does business.

Participation in this webinar will assist you in updating your workforce scheduling practices now to avoid potential compliance issues later.

Who Should Attend

• Senior Leadership

• Owners of restaurants and other retail establishments

• Human Resources Professionals

• Compensation Professionals

• Operations Professionals

• Recruiting Professionals

• Compliance Professionals

• Managers & Supervisors
  

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