Disney Among Retailers Ending On-Call Shifts to End Probes
- N.Y.’s Schneiderman calls provisional shifts ‘burdensome’
- Abercrombie & Fitch and others reached similar deal in 2015
Six national retailers including Walt Disney Co.’s stores and the teen-clothing chain Aeropostale Inc. agreed to stop using on-call work shifts for U.S. employees to resolve a multistate probe into a practice that hinders planning for childcare and other life activities.
Such "burdensome" scheduling requires employees to call in as late as one hour before a scheduled shift to find out if they will work and be paid that day, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who led the nine-state investigation, said Tuesday in a statement.