Employers in Chicago: new rules may require your attention, especially if you employ workers in cooperation with another employer or operate within any of the industries covered by the city’s Fair Workweek Ordinance.
The Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) Office of Labor Standards (OLS) adopted new rules for administering Chicago’s Fair Workweek and Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinances.
The new rules were published on May 18, 2026, and went into effect on June 1, 2026. A separate blog post addressing the new rules to the Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance can be found here. Without re-hashing all the details about compliance obligations under the Fair Workweek Ordinance, here’s a summary of what’s important to know as these rules go into force.
The Chicago Fair Workweek (FWW) Ordinance is a predictive scheduling law. It provides covered employees with the right to advance notice of their work schedules, a right to decline schedule changes or work hours, and supplemental pay for shift changes (see BACP guidance). However, it does not apply to all employment situations.
Rather, this law applies only to specified workers in covered industries (building services, health care, hotels, manufacturing, restaurants, retail, and warehouse services). To be a “covered employee” under the FWW Ordinance, a worker must perform the majority of their work within the City of Chicago...
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