Harmful disruption of economy is the reason 49 states have begged off the bad idea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tony Gagliardi, Colorado State Director, [email protected],
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, [email protected]
DENVER, March 3, 2023—The natural economic order of prosperous economies received a big boost yesterday when a committee of the Colorado General Assembly stopped a predictive scheduling bill that would have done nothing but hamstring businesses’ abilities to serve their customers and handcuff employees’ abilities to tailor their work lives around their personal lives.
“There is only one state that has a predictive scheduling law, which immediately raised the question why the 49 others don’t,” said Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), said about the House Business Affairs & Labor Committee’s 8-2 vote against advancing House Bill 1118 any further.
“I’m glad committee members seriously considered the many harmful effects of this proposal and wisely stopped it, but I wish proponents would stop claiming it would have only affected businesses with 250 or more employees. No. It would most definitely have affected almost all businesses and the evidence for that can be found in Section 1 of the bill itself.”
As an example, according to Gagliardi, a firm with more than 250 employees which contracts with a janitorial service with just eight employees would have compelled the janitorial service to also abide by House Bill 1118. So, too, would a sandwich shop with six employees if it was a franchise.
HB1118 would have required businesses to post their employees’ schedules two weeks in advance and pay a fine for changing it. Oregon is the only state with such a law, but that law prohibits local governments from establishing their own predictive scheduling ordinances. California doesn’t have a statewide law, but local governments are allowed to have their own predictive scheduling ordinances, which San Francisco, in 2014, became the first in the nation to have. Most states and cities have wisely chosen to avoid the issue.
Additional information is available from this NFIB news release sent before the committee voted.
Keep up with the latest Colorado small-business news at www.nfib.com/colorado or by following NFIB on Twitter @NFIB_CO or on Facebook @NFIB.CO
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