My fellow New Yorkers,
Imagine if week after week your employer changed your schedule on a whim, forcing you to work impossible hours at the last minute. Well, that is exactly what tens of thousands of New Yorkers – including 65,000 who work in fast food – live with today and every day.
After taking on paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and a $15 minimum wage, we are now taking aim at one of the most painful and damaging aspects of the contemporary workplace: scheduling that treats human beings like cogs in a machine.
Today we begin the fight for a fair workweek.
We’re going to join forces with the City Council, advocates, labor groups, and the business community to:
- Require fast food employers to set a full schedule two weeks in advance, and post it where workers can easily see it.
- Ensure that employees are appropriately compensated if hours need to be changed on short notice for reasons within the business’ control.
- Regulate the practice of “clopenings,” or shifts that require people to work a closing and opening shift with fewer than 10 hours between them.
It’s about lifting up all New Yorkers, and, in doing so, creating One New York.
Click to watch our Fair Workweek video, and find out more about why this matters so much.
Sincerely,
Bill de Blasio
Mayor