We can help families by requiring adequate notice of work schedules and extra pay for those hit with last-minute schedule changes. New York City recently passed new fair scheduling protections for fast-food workers and retail workers. Consider unstable work hours, the subject of your article. An investment in workers — including some degree of payment for scheduled work hours that are changed or canceled — pays off. Further, management should decentralize many of the decisions over worker schedules to the workers themselves.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 07:18 UTC