Former Starbucks CEO Slams Seattle For Scheduling Rule

Former Starbucks CEO Slams Seattle For Scheduling Rule | The Daily Caller:
"Former Starbucks President Howard Behar denounced a proposed scheduling rule Thursday for putting unnecessary stress on Seattle business owners.
Behar worked as president of the famed coffee shop for 21 years before eventually retiring in 2007. Starbucks started as a small coffee shop in Seattle but under his tenure it expanded into an international operation.
Behar warned on The Dori Monson Show that the very city in which his company started is about to put undue pressure on business owners because of a proposed scheduling rule.
“It’s the opposite of flexible; they are making it inflexible,” Behar told Monson.
“They are making it so there are so many rules that if you wanted to hire an extra person from your staff, you’d have to get permission from your employees first. 
So you couldn’t even hire anybody without offering the hours to those people.”
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and some city council members announced the new rule Feb. 4 with the aims to overhaul workplace scheduling laws.
Employers would be required to provide advance notice before schedule changes and give their workers at least 11 hours off between shifts.
It would also require employers to ask if their current workers want more hours before hiring any additional staff..."