Sen. Warren: Low-wage workers deserve predictable schedules

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— U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is hoping the holiday season will bring attention to one of her major legislative priorities.

The Massachusetts Democrat says some retail, restaurant and fast food workers are at the mercy of erratic work schedules during the holidays.

Warren says half of low-wage workers say they have little or no say over the hours they are scheduled to work and up to 30 percent say they can be called into work at the last minute.

Warren is pushing a bill aimed at encouraging more dependable employee schedules.

Warren said her bill targets practices like placing workers “on-call” with no guarantee of work hours, scheduling them for “split shifts” of nonconsecutive hours, and sending workers home early without pay when demand is low.

http://wwlp.com/2015/11/28/sen-warren-low-wage-workers-deserve-predictable-schedules/

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I wish I could get her to talk to my son's minimum wage employer.

Supposedly this state and city is awash in labor regs yet he starts at 7 am on some days and 330 pm on others.

And he can't park in the employers lot. So guess who has to haul ass outta bed at 6 am to drive to work?

And.... because they don't want to pay anything toward med insurance ( they wouldn't have to anyway since he's on my plan for 5 more years) they won't give him more than 28 hrs per week.

My fantasy is Warren hauls his boss into Washington and gives him the Geitner treatment.