Starting April 1, 2023, Los Angeles retail businesses with at least 300 employees will need to comply with a new Fair Work Week Ordinance. This ordinance will require covered employers to provide a written, good-faith estimate of employee work schedules before hiring and within 10 days’ of a request. The ordinance includes a host of other recordkeeping and work scheduling obligations, and mandates premium pay for shift changes.

Los Angeles, California recently joined San Francisco and Emeryville, California; New York City; Philadelphia; Chicago; Seattle; Euless, Texas; and Oregon as jurisdictions that have enacted “fair workweek” legislation. The Los Angeles Fair Work Week Ordinance will apply only to retail businesses that have at least 300 employees worldwide (including franchises). Employees of such businesses who qualify for minimum wage and perform at least two hours of work in a workweek in the City of Los Angeles will be covered by the ordinance, which contains a host of scheduling and recordkeeping requirements. It is scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2023.

Good-Faith Estimate

Employers will be required to provide workers with a written, good-faith estimate of their work schedule before hiring and within 10 days of a current employee’s request. While regulations are expected to be published that will identify the information that needs to be included in the good-faith estimate, other jurisdictions have required such estimates to identify the actual days...

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