For hourly workers, time is literally money. But how that time is doled out can be far from equal.
White workers in U.S. retail and food-service industries are more likely to get regular shift work than other employees, according to a recent study published in the American Sociological Review. They are less likely to have “on-call” shifts where work is uncertain, made involuntary part-timers due to a lack of shifts, have difficulty getting time off, have their shifts canceled or work back-to-back closing and opening shifts.
