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The enacted ordinance establishes fair-workweek rules for certain large retail, hospitality, and food-service employers, covering businesses with at least 250 employees and 30 or more locations worldwide. It requires advance written work schedules, compensation for certain employer-initiated schedule changes, a nine-hour rest period between shifts unless an employee agrees to work, and offers of available hours to current employees before outside hiring; it also prohibits retaliation and provides for enforcement, fines, and other remedies.

Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Chapter to require certain covered employers to provide "Fair Workweek Employment Standards" for certain employees, including but not limited to reasonable notice of schedules, rest time between shifts, and opportunities for additional hours, and providing for enforcement and penalties, all under certain terms and conditions.