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Wages, overtime and paid sick leave laws have impacted the service and hospital industry. But a new beast is rearing its head. The Fight for Fifteen and union rights movements are inspiring new city and regional legislation designed to improve labor scheduling in restaurants.

Scheduling regulations will cause chains and franchise networks like yours to post notices regularly and retain records for as long as four years. For example, Seattle’s law demands that employers maintain documented records for three years of operators’ responses to employee schedule requests, good-faith guesses of employees’ expected work hours and other aspects of the ordinance. Operators and franchise owners will need to keep a verifiable, electronic, printable trail of all schedules and shift transactions (that’s a mouthful).