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Year in Review Column,
Labor/Employment,
Government,
Corporate,
Administrative/Regulatory

Dec. 20, 2017

Predictive scheduling laws are spreading

Laws combatting unpredictable scheduling practices may be the next wave of wage and hour regulation.

Gary M. McLaughlin

Partner
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Phone: (310) 312-2005

Email: gmm@msk.com

University of Virginia SOL; Charlottesville VA

Gary focuses his practice on the representation and counseling of employers in a wide variety of labor and employment matters, especially class, collective, and representative actions and other complex employment disputes. He represents Fortune 500 companies and other major employers in high stakes litigation and provides strategic counseling to avoid litigation.

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Stephanie P. Priel

Associate
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP

Stephanie is a member of the firm's labor and employment practice.

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2017 IN REVIEW

It's no secret that working in retail and fast food can be tough. Among other challenges, employees must often contend with unpredictable and irregular schedules. Shifts might be changed after they are posted, sometimes only hours before they are scheduled to start. Employees working on-call shifts must be prepared to work, but without assurance that they will actually be called in. Such schedules present obvious difficulties fo...

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