Effective January 1, 2020, larger Chicago employers across various industries will have to comply with a new employee predictive scheduling law. Under the new law, titled the “Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance,” employers will have to provide employees with advanced notice of their work schedules, or risk monetary penalties of $300–$500 per violation and possible lawsuits. In passing this new law, Chicago jumped on a growing trend of predictive scheduling laws, following in the footsteps of major cities like New York and San Francisco. This one, however, is unique in that it is the most expansive one to date with Chicago’s mayor proclaiming it to be “the most expansive predictive scheduling law in the country,” reaching into industries such as “[h]ealth care, manufacturing, and the warehouse industry [which] have never been included in … [such a law] … until now.”

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