• Average weekly wages in industries covered by Oregon's Fair Work Week Act grew 5% faster since the law's 2017 enactment compared to historical trends, according to an analysis published this month by the nonprofit Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project for Middle Class Renewal, a program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's School of Labor and Employment Relations.
• The analysis also found that the share of Oregon workers who were involuntarily employed part-time shrank at a faster rate than in other states, while employee turnover was lower and retention higher in covered industries compared to national averages.
• The law requires employers with 500 or more workers in the retail, hospitality and food services industries to adopt predictive scheduling, such as posting and providing workers' schedules in writing at least 14 calendar days in advance. "The data reveal that these policies can help more employers attract and retain workers back into industries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic," Grace Dunn, research associate at Illinois Economic Policy Institute and co-author of the study, said in a statement.

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In the years preceding the pandemic, worker advocates highlighted predictive scheduling as one of several public policy objectives aimed at securing improved working conditions, particularly for those in public-facing sectors.

Though Oregon is the only jurisdiction to adopt a state-wide law requiring some form of predictive...

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