Bill > S2208

This bill, titled "Relative to the scheduling of employees," aims to introduce the "Just Scheduling Act" in Massachusetts. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring employers to post work schedules at least 7 days in advance and notify employees of any changes as soon as practicable. Employers cannot require employees to work hours not included in the initial schedule without the employee's consent, except for events beyond the employer's control. 2. Providing employees the right to request changes to their work schedules and the right to decline work hours that occur less than 10 hours after the end of the previous day's shift or during the 6 hours following the end of a shift that spans two days. 3. Requiring employers to pay "predictability pay" to employees when shifts are changed, shortened, or hours are added, with some exceptions. 4. Allowing the Attorney General to enforce the provisions of the Act and promulgate rules and regulations for enforcement. 5. Clarifying that the Act does not prevent employers from adopting more beneficial scheduling policies and that it preempts the applicability of any other law, regulation, or standard that provides for scheduling policies that create more rights or extend other protections to employees.

Labor and Employment

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2208