New Regulations, Retailers, Wage and Hour

Fair Work Week Ordinance: Cruel Summer For LA County Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/19/2024

Seyfarth Synopsis: Are you ready for it? The record-smashing icon, Taylor Swift, may have taken her tour to Europe, but that doesn’t stop new laws from cropping up back home. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed...more

Oregon is First State to Pass Predictable Scheduling Law

BCLP on 8/24/2017

Oregon has become the first state to enact a predictable scheduling law, S.B. 828, regulating employer scheduling practices in the food service, hospitality, and retail industries. The new law will take effect on July 1,...more

NYC’s “Fair Workweek” Package Set to Cause Major Disruption and Headaches for Retail and Fast Food Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/13/2017

Scheduling employees in retail and fast food establishments will now be a costly and confusing obstacle for employers. On May 30, 2017, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a legislative package consisting of...more

EU Retail News - March 2017

BCLP on 4/7/2017

From April 2017, the following legal changes are coming into effect. Make sure your business is prepared! Part of this publication originally published by Drapers - March, 2017...more

Seattle to Impose Work Scheduling Restrictions on Large Retail and Food Services Employers

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/23/2016

On September 19, 2016, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to approve a new legislation that would regulate how large retail and food-service businesses schedule their employees. Known as the “secure scheduling” law,...more

Bay Area Blues: San Francisco's Employers/Franchisees Face Retail Workers Bill of Rights

Lewitt Hackman on 1/13/2015

Doing business in San Francisco can be difficult, to say the least. At $10.74/hour, the city already had the highest minimum wage in the country at the end of 2014. On January 1, 2015, San Francisco employers began shelling...more