The legal position

Around a dozen US jurisdictions now regulate this directly, with a common shape and important exceptions. Elsewhere the constraints come from working time law and contract.

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Fair Workweek Rules

A patchwork of city ordinances and one state law, with a common shape and important exceptions. What applies, where, and what it requires.

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Predictability Pay

What triggers it, how much it is, and the accounting that makes it visible as a cost of poor planning rather than an invisible leak.

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Scheduling Under-18s

Rules that sit on top of everything else, apply regardless of advance notice, and are the easiest thing in this subject to get wrong.

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Rest, Breaks and Maximum Hours

The constraints that apply everywhere, sit underneath the scheduling rules, and are checked least.

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The Estimate Given at Hire

A written statement of expected hours and pattern, now required in several places, and useful everywhere as the reference point for everything after.

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Records to Keep

What has to be retained, for how long, and the four things that cannot be reconstructed after the fact.

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Outside the United States

The constraints that apply in the UK and EU, which are shaped differently from fair workweek rules and bite in different places.

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