Just Hours

The fight for a fair work week is back! But this time, retail workers aren’t getting enough hours to survive. One in Nine Americans work in retail – yet corporate retailers’ abusive part-time scheduling practices are causing a crisis of underemployment for retail workers.  Workers struggle not just with shrinking hours but also unpredictable schedules that change with little notice.

Scheduling practices affect how much retail workers take home in pay, whether or not they receive health benefits, and workers’ ability to balance life and work. We can’t afford to be short-changed by this important job creating industry – it’s time for family-sustaining jobs in retail.

Right now, workers at Juicy Couture are standing up for enough hours to live on, and you can support them here!

 

 

 

 

Just Hours is building power to restore a fair workweek through:

      • Corporate Accountability: Mobilizing workers and allies to address the most abusive just-in-time practices at major retailers
      • Legal Enforcement:  Fighting wage theft and scheduling discrimination through legal action
      • Policy Change:  Advancing city and state legislative solutions for predictable  and fair scheduling

Just Hours is a growing coalition of community, labor, and policy partners including: 

A Better Balance
ALIGN
The Black Institute
CLASP
Demos
Family Values At Work
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Interfaith Worker Justice
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Make the Road NY
Moms Rising
9to5, National Association of Working Women
National Employment Law Project (NELP)
National Partnership for Women and Families
NEDAP
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
Queers for Economic Justice
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU, UFCW)
Working Families Party
Women Employed
Workers Defense League
Young Workers United