diff --git a/docs/docs/workers.md b/docs/docs/workers.md
index 9d2f134..ae89b4a 100644
--- a/docs/docs/workers.md
+++ b/docs/docs/workers.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ In addition to `--burst`, `rq worker` also accepts these arguments:
 * `--date-format`: Datetime format for the worker logs, defaults to `'%H:%M:%S'`
 * `--disable-job-desc-logging`: Turn off job description logging.
 * `--max-jobs`: Maximum number of jobs to execute.
+* `--serializer`: Path to serializer object (e.g "rq.serializers.DefaultSerializer" or "rq.serializers.JSONSerializer")
 
 ## Inside the worker
 
@@ -205,23 +206,24 @@ workers = Worker.all(queue=queue)
 ## Worker with Custom Serializer
 
 When creating a worker, you can pass in a custom serializer that will be implicitly passed to the queue.
-Serializers used should have at least `loads` and `dumps` method.
+Serializers used should have at least `loads` and `dumps` method. An example of creating a custom serializer 
+class can be found in serializers.py (rq.serializers.JSONSerializer).
 The default serializer used is `pickle`
 
 ```python
-import json
 from rq import Worker
+from rq.serialzers import JSONSerializer
 
-job = Worker('foo', serializer=json)
+job = Worker('foo', serializer=JSONSerializer)
 ```
 
 or when creating from a queue
 
 ```python
-import json
 from rq import Queue, Worker
+from rq.serialzers import JSONSerializer
 
-w = Worker(Queue('foo'), serializer=json)
+w = Queue('foo', serializer=JSONSerializer)
 ```
 
 Queues will now use custom serializer
diff --git a/rq/cli/cli.py b/rq/cli/cli.py
index f373b9e..95e8f3f 100755
--- a/rq/cli/cli.py
+++ b/rq/cli/cli.py
@@ -25,11 +25,13 @@ from rq.defaults import (DEFAULT_CONNECTION_CLASS, DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS,
 from rq.exceptions import InvalidJobOperationError
 from rq.registry import FailedJobRegistry, clean_registries
 from rq.utils import import_attribute
+from rq.serializers import DefaultSerializer
 from rq.suspension import (suspend as connection_suspend,
                            resume as connection_resume, is_suspended)
 from rq.worker_registration import clean_worker_registry
 
 
+
 # Disable the warning that Click displays (as of Click version 5.0) when users
 # use unicode_literals in Python 2.
 # See http://click.pocoo.org/dev/python3/#unicode-literals for more details.
@@ -62,7 +64,10 @@ shared_options = [
     click.option('--path', '-P',
                  default='.',
                  help='Specify the import path.',
-                 multiple=True)
+                 multiple=True),
+    click.option('--serializer', '-S',
+                 default=DefaultSerializer,
+                 help='Path to serializer, defaults to rq.serializers.DefaultSerializer')
 ]
 
 
@@ -117,7 +122,7 @@ def empty(cli_config, all, queues, **options):
 @click.option('--queue', required=True, type=str)
 @click.argument('job_ids', nargs=-1)
 @pass_cli_config
-def requeue(cli_config, queue, all, job_class, job_ids,  **options):
+def requeue(cli_config, queue, all, job_class, job_ids, **options):
     """Requeue failed jobs."""
 
     failed_job_registry = FailedJobRegistry(queue,
@@ -203,13 +208,14 @@ def info(cli_config, interval, raw, only_queues, only_workers, by_queue, queues,
 @click.option('--disable-default-exception-handler', '-d', is_flag=True, help='Disable RQ\'s default exception handler')
 @click.option('--max-jobs', type=int, default=None, help='Maximum number of jobs to execute')
 @click.option('--with-scheduler', '-s', is_flag=True, help='Run worker with scheduler')
+@click.option('--serializer', '-S', default=None, help='Run worker with custom serializer')
 @click.argument('queues', nargs=-1)
 @pass_cli_config
 def worker(cli_config, burst, logging_level, name, results_ttl,
            worker_ttl, job_monitoring_interval, disable_job_desc_logging,
            verbose, quiet, sentry_ca_certs, sentry_debug, sentry_dsn,
            exception_handler, pid, disable_default_exception_handler, max_jobs,
-           with_scheduler, queues, log_format, date_format, **options):
+           with_scheduler, queues, log_format, date_format, serializer, **options):
     """Starts an RQ worker."""
     settings = read_config_file(cli_config.config) if cli_config.config else {}
     # Worker specific default arguments
@@ -226,7 +232,6 @@ def worker(cli_config, burst, logging_level, name, results_ttl,
     setup_loghandlers_from_args(verbose, quiet, date_format, log_format)
 
     try:
-
         cleanup_ghosts(cli_config.connection)
         exception_handlers = []
         for h in exception_handler:
@@ -247,7 +252,8 @@ def worker(cli_config, burst, logging_level, name, results_ttl,
             job_class=cli_config.job_class, queue_class=cli_config.queue_class,
             exception_handlers=exception_handlers or None,
             disable_default_exception_handler=disable_default_exception_handler,
-            log_job_description=not disable_job_desc_logging
+            log_job_description=not disable_job_desc_logging,
+            serializer=serializer
         )
 
         # Should we configure Sentry?
diff --git a/tests/test_cli.py b/tests/test_cli.py
index 51d4e60..8c5aa62 100644
--- a/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from rq.cli import main
 from rq.cli.helpers import read_config_file, CliConfig
 from rq.job import Job
 from rq.registry import FailedJobRegistry, ScheduledJobRegistry
+from rq.serializers import JSONSerializer
 from rq.worker import Worker, WorkerStatus
 
 import pytest
@@ -346,3 +347,13 @@ class TestRQCli(RQTestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(result.exit_code, 1)
         self.assertIn("Duration must be an integer greater than 1", result.output)
+
+    def test_serializer(self):
+        """rq worker -u <url> --serializer <serializer>"""
+        connection = Redis.from_url(self.redis_url)
+        q = Queue('default', connection=connection, serializer=JSONSerializer)
+        runner = CliRunner()
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
+        runner.invoke(main, ['worker', '-u', self.redis_url,
+                            '--serializer rq.serializer.JSONSerializer'])
+        self.assertIn(job.id, q.job_ids)