Predictive Scheduling’s Effect on Restaurants 

Predictive scheduling is a set of practices and laws which primarily affect the retail and hospitality industries, and which govern how employers in those industries create schedules for their employees. It has been known by other names such as fair scheduling or secure scheduling, but the intent of the practice is to eliminate on-call scheduling, and to provide employees with known schedules they can count on.

Other Provisions of Predictive SchedulingThere are a few other provisions in the overall area of predictive scheduling, the first of which is that employees must be given sufficient notice for their shift schedules. When an employer changes a schedule in a way that contradicts predictive scheduling, employees would have to be compensated for that breach. In addition, all employees are entitled to receive a specific number of hours of off-time between shifts, and in cases where this doesn't happen, they would have to be paid at a higher rate.

Origins of Predictive…