; findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Schedules That Work Act . (b) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The vast majority of the United States workforce today is juggling responsibilities at home and at work. Women are primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in 64 percent of families in the United States. (2) Despite the dual responsibilities of today's workforce, both hourly and salaried workers often have little ability to make changes to their work schedules when those changes are needed to accommodate family responsibilities. (3) (A) Mothers working in low-wage jobs are more likely to be the primary or sole breadwinner for their families than mothers working in higher-wage jobs. For example, nearly 7 in 10 mothers in the one-fifth of households in the United States with the lowest incomes bring home all or most of their families’ income, compared to less than one-third of their counterparts in the highest-income quintile. (B) At the same time, low-wage workers have the least control over their work schedules and the most unpredictable schedules. Across industries, more than half (55 percent) of low-paid hourly workers report that they receive a week or less of notice of their work schedules, and nearly two-thirds (65 percent) report that their employer controls the timing of their work hours. In some industries, just-in-time scheduling practices, which base workers' schedules on perceived consumer demand to minimize labor costs, are particularly common. Employers using these practices often post work schedules with little notice, vary work hours widely from week to week, cancel shifts at the last minute, and schedule employees for on call shifts (requiring an employee to call in to work to find out whether the employee will have to work later that day) or clopening shifts (requiring an employee to work a closing shift at night followed by an opening shift a few hours later). For example, surveys of nearly 30,000 hourly workers employed by the 80 largest retail and food service chains