by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO
A new bill introduced at the General Assembly would require employers to give their employees at least two weeks’ notice of their work schedules.
The legislation, labeled as the “Fair Workweek for Rhode Island” Act, would also require employers to pay their employees additional pay if they change their previously scheduled shift.
The bill, introduced by Representatives Anastasia Williams, Aaron Regunberg, Teresa Tanzi, Scott Slater, and Shelby Maldonado is listed as one of the RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s “Worst Bills of 2016.”
The Center’s Mike Stenhouse told WPRO’s Tara Granahan, who was the first to report on the bill on Tuesday afternoon, that the legislation is “actually comical and sad at the same time. The bill has other provisions in it. It talks about how a company can give out stock options, it provides for minimum hours per shift, it also has a provision that employees, as long as they find a substitute, don’t have to come to work.”
Read the full text of the bill HERE.
Listen to Granahan’s conversation with Stenhouse below:
