Fair scheduling rights for food and retail workers

The all too common practice of Sudden schedule changes without adequate notice from employers, being required to work all shifts, varying shifts day to day, holidays and weekends make it nearly impossible for food and retail workers to sustain any sort of healthy work/life balance. Unless they have reliable and retired family close by to help-anyone with children has hard time finding affordable child care for later hours of the day-and especially last minute care. Their children are often unable to participate in extracurricular activities due to inability to commit to regular transportation to and from these activities. Not enough time or notice between shifts causes added physical and mental strain to employees. This causes strain on marriages, and parent/child relationships. These service industry positions are vital to our economy and to busy families. Petition asks simply for the Right to fair scheduling for food and retail workers. Salary and hourly. Stipulations for changing schedule less than 1 week prior, also require minimum of 11 hours between shifts (no “clopening” shifts). Overtime pay for salary workers who work over 45 hrs a week. Companies/businesses should not be able to require salary or hourly workers to come to work, be on conference call, or last minute meetings/trainings. If a salary person is needed to do work on day off, and they agree, they should be compensated for their time worked in the form of overtime. Sundays and holidays worked should be automatic overtime pay. This would also help retail workers have enough workers on the busiest times of week/year to take care of the businesses maximize sales.