After failing to move out of the Senate Labor & Commerce Committee, Senate Bill 5717, AKA Secure Scheduling is effectively dead for the 2020 Washington State Legislative session.
The bill as proposed requires employers in the food service, retail and hospitality industries with 100 or more employees worldwide to provide a written good faith estimate of the employee’s work schedule. This schedule must include the median number of hours the employee is expected to work each workweek and updated annually. In addition, this bill requires the employer to provide employees a written work schedule at least 14 days before the first day of the work schedule. If hours are added to the schedule, the employer must pay at least one hour of pay in addition to wages earned. If hours are reduced, employer must pay ½ the employee’s rate for any hours subtracted from their schedule. This bill is like the law enacted in Oregon in July 2018.
This law is currently in place in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle.
Expect this bill to be reintroduced in 2021 when the Washington Legislature convenes a full session.
