Council backs L.A. fast-food worker scheduling protections as businesses complain of tight margins
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Set us as preferred The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved scheduling protections and in-person labor rights training for fast-food workers, despite business owners’ objections that the new rules would burden local franchisees who already operate on thin profit margins.Existing city law, known as the Fair Work Week ordinance, requires certain retail businesses to give workers their schedule at least two weeks in advance.Businesses also must provide workers at least 10 hours’ rest between shifts, or provide extra pay for that work.
The council’s vote Tuesday, which directs the city attorney to draft language extending such protections to workers in the fast-food industry, was approved 10 to 2, with Councilmembers John Lee and Traci Park opposed.California The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on an ordinance Tuesday that seeks to implement more protections for fast-food workers.
Fast-food businesses are lobbying fiercely against the proposal.Labor groups sponsoring the new protections — Starbucks Workers United and the California Fast Food Workers Union, which is affiliated with Service Employees International Union — have contended that the fast-food workforce faces unstable schedules that make it difficult for workers, many of them women and immigrants, to plan their finances, child care, medical appointments and other obligations.In their vote, City Council members also ordered a report with a framework on how to implement a mandatory six-hour paid training to educate workers on minimum wage laws and other labor protections.“We can pass strong labor laws, but if the workers don’t know what those laws mean, then we’re not really doing our job as a city,” Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who first proposed the ordinance, said after the vote.
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