A friendly reminder about Chicago’s Fair Workweek Ordinance
Working Chicagoans thrive when they can plan for themselves and their families, enabling them to proudly call this city and all it has to offer home. That’s why last summer, Chicago stood with workers by passing the Fair Workweek Ordinance. This landmark law ensures that workers at businesses in particular industries get predictable schedules, while offering both employers and employees a flexible framework to make changes to schedules as needed with compensation for last minute schedule adjustments.
The Fair Workweek Ordinance applies to employers that meet the following criteria:
Operate within a covered industry (building services, healthcare, hotel, manufacturing, restaurant, retail, or warehouse services)
Employ 100 or more employees (250 for not for profits), at least 50 of whom are covered by the Ordinance.
Employees are covered by the Ordinance if they work a majority of time in Chicago in a covered industry and earn up to $50,000 per year (salary) or $26 per hour (hourly) or less.
Covered employees include temp workers on assignment for 420 hours within an 18-month period.
Qualifying restaurants must have higher employee and store location counts, so visit the links below to see if you qualify for coverage under the law.
To learn more about Fair Workweek, visit www.chicago.gov/laborstandards, and click on the green Fair Workweek icon.
