By Susan Lambert

Seattle

The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year 1 Findings

Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance (SSO) went into effect on July 1, 2017. The SSO was one of the nation’s first laws regulating workers’ schedule predictability. The SSO covers hourly workers at retail and food service establishments with 500 or more employees worldwide and at full-service restaurants with at least 500 employees worldwide and at least 40 locations. The Ordinance called for an evaluation of the law’s impacts in the first and second years after passage. The Seattle Office of City Auditor engaged a team of researchers with expertise in working conditions to produce the evaluation. The evaluation consists of two...
Seattle

The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Baseline Report

In September 2016, Seattle adopted a Secure Scheduling Ordinance (SSO), making Seattle an early adopter of guidelines for employer scheduling of employees designed to promote work hour and income predictability. The ordinance went into effect on July 1, 2017. The Secure Scheduling Ordinance (SSO) calls for a baseline study, as well as impact evaluations in the first and second years after implementation. The City of Seattle’s Office of City Auditor (OCA) has contracted with a team of academic researchers to conduct these evaluations for both workers and employers. The Secure Scheduling research team includes national experts on labor standards, employer...