This Law Firm Publication by Fisher & Phillips LLP discusses a new ordinance, known as the Secure Scheduling Ordinance, recently passed by the Seattle City Council. It requires retail and food service establishments with 500 or more employees worldwide to provide employees who work at least 50% of the time in Seattle with good faith estimates of their work schedule at hire, as well as 14 calendar days of advanced notice of their schedules. Should the employer make a scheduling change with less than two weeks of notice, the employer will have to pay the employee additional wages, with certain exceptions. The ordinance, which takes effect July 17, 2017, imposes several other obligations on covered employers and provides covered employees with additional scheduling-related rights.