To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Education, Government Operations.
Who Benefits and How
workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title; findings This Act may be cited as the Schedules That Work Act. Congress finds the following: The vast majority of the United States workforce...
- Section id521e8d278df746cc8e06680ab6e224ff: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term bona fide business reason means— the identifiable burden of additional costs to an employer, including the cost of...
- Section idbce8b389a7e540d99367e51aa7501049: 3. Right to request and receive a flexible, predictable, or stable work schedule An employee may request from their employer a change in the terms and...
- Section id4e9e595ab7bd4e0a889426a0652a2ce8: 4. Requirements for advance notice of work schedules, predictability pay, and split shift pay for covered sector employees An employer shall provide a covered...
- Section id5d75d568a7614ffbb5cc8d402f2dcf60: 5. Right to rest between work shifts An employee of a covered employer may decline, without penalty, to work any work shift or on-call shift that is scheduled...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Education, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
This bill, To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- workers, employers, and labor regulators
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- workers, employers, and labor regulators
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Warren (for herself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_labor"
- → Secretary of Labor
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
such a violation for which, based on all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the violation, an employer— knew that its conduct was prohibited by, as applicable, section 4 or 5 or subsection (b) or (c) of section 6
a person with whom an individual entered into— a marriage as defined or recognized under State law in the State in which the marriage was entered into
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