Chicago’s fair workweek law takes effect Wednesday as businesses grapple with pandemic uncertainty – Chicago Tribune

Only employees who make less than $26 an hour or $50,000 a year are covered by the protections. The law applies to businesses with 100 or more employees, to nonprofits with more than 250 employees, to restaurants with at least 30 locations and 250 employees globally, and to franchisees with four or more locations.
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debtsor
6 years ago

On the one hand, this is bad, bad law, making it difficult to run a business. On the other hand, these are all reasonable requests for workers. It wouldn’t be a big deal if these were college kids or young single people with these jobs. But the problem is that these low wage jobs with unpredictable hours and pay are all the only jobs that many full time workers with CPS educations can get after years of globalization and offshoring. The same could be said for poor rural whites too. I’ve always said that Black people do have a crappier… Read more »

Last edited 6 years ago by debtsor

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