Urban Outfitters asks employees to work for free

Urban Outfitters asks employees to work for free, Urban Outfitters Inc. has asked salaried workers at the company’s home appointment to “volunteer” for added weekend accouterment at a new accomplishment centermost in the boondocks of Gap, PA.

In an email, the aggregation asked for weekend workers to “pick, backpack and adapt bales for shipment.” The three brands below the URBN URBN, +1.88% awning are Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and Free People.

Volunteers would plan six-hour accouterment in barter for cafeteria and transportation, if required. The email advises participants to abrasion “sneakers and adequate clothing” to adapt for this “team architecture activity.”

The picking, packing and advancing that’s appropriate are jobs that commonly pay wages. But this array of appeal is a accepted accident in the industry if there’s a new accomplishment center, according to a spokesperson. The aggregation approved advice for next weekend, the one after, and October 31.

Hourly-wage workers were afar from the email, admitting the aggregation said some of them responded. ”Many alternate advisers aswell offered to angle in—an action which we appreciated, but beneath in adjustment to ensure abounding acquiescence with all applicative activity laws and regulations,” the aggregation said in a statement.

On Wednesday, Urban Outfitters became the fifth banker to end on-call scheduling for workers in its New York stores, according to a account by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

”As allotment of this agreement, Urban Outfitters has aswell agreed to accommodate advisers with their schedules at atomic one anniversary above-mentioned to the alpha of the workweek,” AG Schneiderman said in a statement. “Workers deserve basal protections, including a reliable plan agenda that allows them to account active expenses, align for adolescent affliction needs, and plan their days.”

Urban Outfitters joins Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF, +1.96% Bath & Body Works LB, +1.93% Gap Inc. GAP, +2.64% and Victoria’s Secret in this new policy.
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