7shifts empowers restaurants of all sizes to schedule their staff, connect with their team, and take control of their labor costs. Our drag-and-drop schedule builder, in-app communication tools, and proactive employee engagement insights help restaurant owners and managers streamline their operations so they can focus on what matters—serving their customers and growing their business.
With 7shifts, your restaurant can easily:
Nov 2017 · Fast-food restaurants · 30+ locations
The NYC Fair Workweek law, enacted in 2017, applies to all fast-food restaurants in the city with more than 30 locations worldwide. Staying compliant with the legislation when building your staff schedules is essential.
Employers must follow these labor compliance requirements or pay out fees.
Labor laws in California are complex, with strict rest and meal break policies state-wide, and Fair Workweek ordinances being implemented in several Californian cities. Labor law compliance in California is critical for restaurants, as each labor exception must be paid out to employees—often titled as “premium pay events.” Here are the California labor laws your restaurant must adhere to.
Employers must:
March 2016 · 20+ locations · 20+ employees in San Francisco
Labor compliance laws in San Francisco, include the Predictable Scheduling and Fair Treatment for Formula Retail Employees Ordinance (or FREROs) and covers employees in a subset of companies that have 20+ locations worldwide and employ over 20 people in the city of San Francisco.
Here are the labor compliance requirements of these ordinances. Employers must:
July 2017 · Hourly employees · 500+ employees
Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance applies to hourly employees at companies with 500+ staff members worldwide.
Employers must follow these labor compliance requirements or pay out fees.
August 2017 · Hourly employees · 500+ employees
Oregon’s labor laws, the Oregon Fair Work Week Act applies to employers of hourly employees with over 500 staff members worldwide
Employers must follow these labor compliance requirements or pay out fees.
April 2020 · 30+ locations · 250+ employees
Philadelphia’s Fair Workweek Employment Standards Ordinance applies to food and retail businesses with over 30 locations nationwide and 250+ employees total.
Here are the labor compliance requirements of these ordinances. Employers must:
*Effective July 1st, 2020
**14-day notice in effect Jan 1st, 2021
***If an employee opts to work within the rest period, they must provide written approval and be paid $40 extra for each shift.
Flexible scheduling
7shifts’ drag-and-drop schedule builder makes it simple to schedule shifts in accordance with the law. Get ultimate visibility into each employee’s shifts and use sales and weather forecasts to build the most efficient schedules.
Flexible scheduling
7shifts' provides restaurants with an intuitive, drag-and-drop schedule builder that makes it simple to schedule shifts that work for your restaurant—and stay compliant with local labor laws.
Get ultimate visibility into each employees' time-off and availability preferences to build shifts and full schedules that work for everyone. Leverage sales and labor data from your POS integration, as well as regional weather forecasts to build more efficient schedules. Over-staffing, under-staffing, and missed labor targets are a thing of the past.
Overtime alerts
While scheduling, managers will receive alerts of any overtime they’ve built into the schedule. Additionally, managers receive a notification when an on-duty employee is about to go into overtime.
Overtime alerts
Managers get automatic schedule alerts when building shifts to notify them of potential overtime. Additionally, managers will receive a notification when an on-duty employee is about to go into overtime—so they can approve the overtime or cut the employee. Overtime notifications are specific to each region—so you'll always be compliant with your local legislation.
With better visibility, your restaurant will never pay out overtime you didn't budget for or ecxpect—and you'll be more in control of your labor costs.
Electronic schedule publishing
Easily publish new schedules to employees via SMS text, push notification, or email with 2 weeks’ notice. Employees can view their shifts directly on their mobile device.
Electronic schedule publishing
When your managers are done building the schedule, they can easily publish privately or publicly—allowing managers to easily provide schedules with two weeks' notice. When new schedules are published publicly, a notification will be sent to employees via SMS text, push notification, or email. Employees can view their shifts directly on their mobile device and chat with managers directly in the app if they have any questions or concerns.
Shift swapping
Employees can voluntarily offer up shifts or accept extra shifts from coworkers with managerial approval.
Shift swapping
Shift swapping empowers your staff with more ownership of their schedules. With this feature, employees can offer up their shifts to coworkers in the "Shit Pool," or bid on other shifts to get more hours.
Shift bids are sent to managers to select the best employee to work the shift. When approved, the schedule is automatically updated to reflect the new changes.
Time-off and availability requests
Schedules are infinitely flexible for your staff with time-off and availability requests submitted directly through the app. Managers can approve, deny, and manage requests on-the-go.
Time-off and availability requests
Schedules are infinitely more flexible for your staff with time-off and availability requests submitted directly through the app. Managers receive notifications of all schedule requests through the app and can approve, deny, and manage requests on-the-go.
Scheduled break management
Schedule custom and mandatory breaks in any shift and get notifications to remind employees to take them.
Scheduled break management
When planning for the weeks ahead, managers can build meal breaks, rest breaks, and even custom breaks into the schedule to stay labor compliant. Managers will receive notifications on the job when an employee is due to take their required breaks.
Schedule change alerts
When making any last-minute changes to published schedules, you’ll receive an alert and the associated exception cost will be added to your labor exception report.
Schedule change alerts
In regions that require two weeks' notice of schedules, managers are prompted to stay compliant with built-in schedule change alerts. When a manager makes any last-minute change to published schedules, they’ll receive an alert to remind them of the labor law, and the associated exception cost will be added to the labor exception report.
Split shift detection
Split shift punches are detected automatically when an employee punches in with 7shifts, and the associated “split shift premium” is fed directly into the labor exception report.
Split shift detection
In Oregon and New York, there are strict labor laws around split shifts and clopens. To help restaurants stay compliant, managers will receive an alert when building split shifts into the schedule. Split shift punches are also automatically detected when an employee punches in with 7shifts, and the associated “split shift premium” is fed directly into the labor exception report.
Built-in attestation
When an employee clocks out using 7punches, they’ll be asked if they took their required meal and rest breaks or waived them, so you can accurately track your labor law compliance.
Built-in attestation
Strict regulations regarding meal and rest breaks can cause major headaches for managers—especially when employees simply forget to take their required breaks, or a waived break isn't recorded. When an employee clocks out using 7punches, they’ll be asked if they took their required meal and rest breaks or waived them, so managers can accurately track labor law compliance.
The attestations questions and responses are completely customizable to your restaurant—so you can stay compliant your way.
Spread of hours and clopen alerts
Get alerts when scheduling employees for a split shift that exceeds 10 hours, and when scheduling staff for “clopens” with less than 11 hours rest between shifts.
Spread of hours and clopen alerts
Oregon and New York have strict regulations around spread of hours and clopens. 7shifts makes it easy to stay on top of these laws with built-in scheduling alerts that inform managers about any violations.
Managers are alerted when scheduling employees for a split shift that exceeds 10 hours, and advised about the $100 charge when scheduling staff for “clopens” with less than 11 hours rest between shifts.
Maintain compliance records
Keep records of all scheduled shifts, punch data, and account activity for three years and beyond.
Maintain compliance records
Labor laws require employers to keep records of schedules, punch data, and more for at least three years. 7shifts makes this easy by logging all of your restaurant's scheduled shifts, punch data, and account activity for as long as you need.
Generate labor exception reports
Easily access automated labor exception reports with type and fee amount of each exception. With the added visibility, you’ll stay more compliant with local laws.
Generate labor exception reports
Every labor law violation is counted as an "exception" and automatically fed into a report for managers and owners. The labor exception report tracks the date, type, and fee associated with each exception, and provides the visibility needed to help your restaurant stay more compliant with local labor laws.
Right to Rest Alerts
Managers will receive alerts of any Right to Rest exceptions in the schedule and be notified of the associated fee.
Right to Rest Alerts
Managers will receive alerts of any Right to Rest exceptions in the schedule and be notified of the associated fee.
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Your restaurant needs to avoid costly compliance fees and treat your employees fairly. 7shifts has the built-in labor compliance tools you need to do it all with built-in overtime alerts, custom break management, an easy schedule publisher, and team communication tools.
See what region-specific labor compliance features 7shifts has in the tabs below.
7shifts comes with built-in New York labor compliance tools to keep your restaurant fair workweek compliant.
Here’s what New York labor compliance means for your operation:
Restaurants can run an NYC Fair Workweek Report to receive a list of all the Fair Workweek exceptions incurred, including location, date, fee, type, and details of the violation.
7shifts comes with built-in California labor compliance tools to keep your restaurant fair workweek compliant.
Here’s what California labor compliance means for your operation:
Restaurants can run a labor compliance report to receive a list of all the compliance exceptions incurred, including location, date, fee, type, and details of the violation.
7shifts comes with built-in San Francisco labor compliance tools to keep your restaurant Predictable Scheduling compliant.
Here’s what Seattle labor compliance means for your restaurant:
7shifts comes with built-in Seattle labor compliance tools to keep your restaurant Secure Scheduling compliant.
Here’s what Seattle labor compliance means for your restaurant:
7shifts comes with built-in Oregon labor compliance tools to keep your restaurant fair workweek compliant.
Here’s what Oregon labor compliance means for your operation:
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