Shift work: Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction
The Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given without a breakdown run from 10 to 72 hour, read 30 October 2026.
Rotazo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
6 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 30 October 2026.
By rule
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruleaccess-to-hours posting period | 3day | 3 to 3day | 1 |
| rulepredictability pay per changed shift | 1hour | 1 to 1hour | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Fair Workweek Law - retail employers | 72hour | 2026-10-24 | |
| GOV.UK maximum weekly working hours | 48hour | 2026-10-30 | |
| US DOL WHD Fact Sheet 22 - hours worked under the FLSA | 40hour | 2026-10-30 | |
| Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance | 14day | 2026-10-24 | |
| California IWC Wage Order 5 - public housekeeping | 12hour | 2026-10-24 | |
| GOV.UK rest breaks at work | 11hour | 2026-10-24 | |
| Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance | 10hour | 2026-10-24 | |
| Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance | 3day | access-to-hours posting period | 2026-10-24 |
| Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance | 1hour | predictability pay per changed shift | 2026-10-24 |
The sentence each figure was read from (9)
- NYC Fair Workweek Law - retail employers, read 2026-10-24:
Cannot require an employee to work with less than 72 hours’ notice, unless the employee agrees.
- GOV.UK maximum weekly working hours, read 2026-10-30:
You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks.
- US DOL WHD Fact Sheet 22 - hours worked under the FLSA, read 2026-10-30:
The Act requires that employees must receive at least the minimum wage and may not be employed for more than 40 hours in a week without receiving at least one and one-half times their regular rates of pay for the overtime hours.
- Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance, read 2026-10-24:
Post work schedules at least 14 days in advance, and respect employees’ right to decline any hours not on originally posted schedules.
- California IWC Wage Order 5 - public housekeeping, read 2026-10-24:
(b) Double the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours on the seventh (7th) consecutive day of work in a workweek.
- GOV.UK rest breaks at work, read 2026-10-24:
Workers have the right to 11 hours rest between working days.
- Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance, read 2026-10-24:
Pay time-and-a-half for any hours worked between closing and opening shifts that are separated by less than 10 hours.
- Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance, read 2026-10-24:
Offer additional work hours to current employees by posting notice of available hours for three days and offering the hours to qualified, current employees before hiring new employees (unless an exception applies).
- Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance, read 2026-10-24:
One hour of pay for hours added to a shift or when a shift date or time is changed.
Read in full, publishes no figure
3 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 10 - daily rest (GB), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 11 - weekly rest (GB), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- California IWC wage orders by industry, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
6 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in hour (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 20 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per rule holding the NUMBER a scheduler has to obey - minimum hours between shifts, maximum consecutive days, advance-notice days, predictability pay per changed shift, split-shift premium, who is covered by headcount and industry - each quoted verbatim from the statute or ordinance with its effective date; the cross-jurisdiction comparison (14 days in Seattle, 72 hours for NYC retail, nothing federally) is the figure, and a rota can then be checked against the row
20 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (9)
- Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 10 - daily rest (GB)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 11 - weekly rest (GB)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK rest breaks at work(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK maximum weekly working hours(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- California IWC Wage Order 5 - public housekeeping(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- California IWC wage orders by industry(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US DOL WHD Fact Sheet 22 - hours worked under the FLSA(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NYC Fair Workweek Law - retail employers(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given without a breakdown run from 10 to 72 hour, read 30 October 2026.
6 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 30 October 2026.
Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction, rule access-to-hours posting period: median 3 day across 1 source, read 30 October 2026.
Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction, rule predictability pay per changed shift: median 1 hour across 1 source, read 30 October 2026.
Cite as: "Rotazo Scheduling Law by Jurisdiction", updated 2026-10-31, https://rotazo.com/datasets/scheduling-law-by-jurisdiction/.
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