--- title: Seattle Wants to Make Life Easier for Store Clerks and Baristas description: The city of Seattle is considering expanding on its $15 minimum wage to make employers give workers more regular schedules. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-08-30T16:00:56.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T03:31:28.000Z' section: Business tags: - $15 minimum wage - pubdesk - Seattle - Workplace word_count: 194 canonical: https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Seattle Mayor Signs Bill Raising City's Minimum Wage To 15 Dollars An Hour](https://img.money.com/2016/08/seattle-wages.jpeg) After passing a [$15 minimum wage](http://murray.seattle.gov/minimumwage) that started being phased in last year, now Seattle lawmakers have their sights set on smoothing out the unpredictable and often inconvenient schedules hourly workers get assigned. The proposal for "secure scheduling," as it's being labeled, would require retail and restaurant operators with 500 or more employees to give workers more predictable schedules and compensate them if they cut their hours at the last minute or send them home early. Stores and fast-food outlets also would have to give workers a minimum of 10 hours' rest in between shifts to avoid the "clopen" (a late-night closing shift followed by a crack-of-dawn opening shift). Starbucks workers have publicly [decried](https://time.com/4046768/starbucks-worker-conditions/) the "clopen" practice, prompting the coffee giant to [pledge](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/starbucks-to-revise-work-scheduling-policies.html) that it would curtail the practice. Seattle's proposed worker laws would also make companies offer hours to their existing workers before hiring new employees. "When people have more secure hours, they can do things that make the city more affordable, such as holding down a second job or going to school so they can get a better job," bill sponsor and City Council member Lisa Herbold told [*U.S. News & World Report*](http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-08-30/seattle-weighs-new-rules-for-businesses-with-hourly-workers). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Employee Benefits", "item": "https://money.com/employee-benefits/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Seattle Wants to Make Life Easier for Store Clerks and Baristas" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/", "name": "Seattle Wants to Make Life Easier for Store Clerks and Baristas", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-08-30T16:00:56.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/seattle-hourly-worker-schedules/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T03:31:28.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Seattle Wants to Make Life Easier for Store Clerks and Baristas", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/08/seattle-wages.jpeg", "width": 3200, "height": 2133, "caption": "seattle-wages" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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