Retailers to drop on-call scheduling amid state probes

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Six U.S. retailers will no longer require hourly employees to check whether they are still needed for work and risk having their scheduled shifts canceled with little notice, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will announce on Tuesday.

Schneiderman and his counterparts in seven states, including California and Illinois, have sent letters to a number of companies in the last year requesting information about their scheduling practices.

But in the letters, state officials said workers can be harmed by "unpredictable" schedules that can increase stress, strain family life and make it harder to arrange child care or pursue an education.

The companies to end on-call scheduling are Aeropostale Inc (AROPQ.PK), Carter's Inc (CRI.N), David's Tea Inc (DTEA.O), Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), Pacific Sunwear of California Inc (PSUN.MU) and Zumiez Inc (ZUMZ.O).

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U.S. | Tue Dec 20, 2016 | 2:52am EST
By Daniel Wiessner

[Sherman A1]

1. Excellent

this is long overdue!

[Ilsa]

2. Good. That's no way to live and work. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Aeropostale

now owned by a mall owner who didn't wish to see the stores empty
in their malls. It's sort of a debtor-in-possession, once removed.

[cstanleytech]

4. Hmmm they need to look at the other retailers like Walmart and Publix as they both

have a habit of suddenly changing schedules for their employees like this is and god help the employee who misses a shift because of it.

[bluevoter4life]

5. Can't speak for Wal-Mart

But when I worked at Publix, I never had an on-call shift nor did I ever have my schedule changed without knowing about it. I have had short shifts, but never on-call. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones? I worked at 6 stores in my 7 years with the company.

[Maeve]

6. Way too many companies jerk their employees around

That is part of why my daughter left Disney.