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Effective June 1, 2026, updated the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) rules require substantive changes to covered employers’ scheduling, predictability pay, access to hours, right-to-rest practices and recordkeeping obligations.
The FWO requires large employers in the building services, healthcare, hotel, manufacturing, restaurant, retail, and warehouse services industries to provide workers with at least two weeks’ advance notice of their work schedules and compensate workers for last-minute changes. Covered employers are those that employ more than 100 employees globally (or 250 employees globally, in the case of not-for-profit corporations), have at least 50 covered employees, and are primarily engaged in a covered industry.
Chicago’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) has issued the revised rules and a summary of changes.
The FWO requires that an employer posts each covered employee’s schedule at least 14 calendar days before the start of the schedule.
The new rules clarify the definition of week...
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