Audio Conference: Flexible Scheduling for Low-Wage Workers
June 28, 2011
Join CLASP for a national audio conference June 28 from 3 - 4 p.m. ET to discuss a new report, Flexible Workplace Solutions for Low-wage Hourly Workers: A Framework for a National Conversation. The report explores the scheduling challenges facing low-wage hourly workers - namely rigidity, unpredictability, and instability - and explores solutions to these problems, ranging from shift-swapping, the ability to alter start and end times, and predictable scheduling to short-term and extended time off.
Speakers Include:
- Latifa Lyles, Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
- Dr. Jennifer E. Swanberg, Associate Professor and Executive Director, iwin at the University of Kentucky
- Liz Watson, Executive Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy