The city of Los Angeles’s recently passed Fair Workweek Ordinance (the Ordinance) takes effect April 1, 2023. The ordinance aims to ensure Los Angeles retail employees have more predictable work schedules by requiring employers to provide advance notice of those schedules, imposing constraints on how employers can schedule their employees, and holding employers financially responsible…

On July 24, 2019, the city of Chicago enacted the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, intended to “enact and enforce fair and equitable employment scheduling practices in the City of Chicago…” Most provisions of the Ordinance go into effect on July 1, 2020.

The Ordinance covers employers primarily engaged in building services, health care, hotel, manufacturing, …