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New York CNN Business —   New York City is suing Chipotle Mexican Grill, alleging that the company violated a law that requires fast food chains to give their employees more predictable, less hectic schedules. In a lawsuit filed this week, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said that from the end of November 2017 through at least September 2019, workers experienced nearly 600,000 violations of the law. Chipotle (CMG) owes worker...

WHYY By A SEPTA bus approaches City Hall in a bus lane.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Philadelphia made headlines for passing a slate of worker protections laws between 2015 and 2021. The Office of Worker Protections oversees the enforcement of such laws, intended to give workers a heads up about their schedules, keep sick people from working, ensure domestic workers have paid time off, and to protect workers who speak up about COVID-19 conditions, among many other protections. But, the office is too ...

The city of New York sues Chipotle over unfair work scheduling practices (again) National burrito and bowl chain Chipotle has been sued by the city of New York for over $150 million due to alleged violations of the city’s Fair Workweek Law, which was enacted in 2017 to protect workers from unreliable shift scheduling and other unfair work scheduling practices. According to a New York Timesreport, Chipotle was found in violation of the law in numerous ways, including engaging in last-minute s...

New York City sues Chipotle, alleging hundreds of thousands of labor law violations New York City is suing Chipotle Mexican Grill, alleging that the company violated a law that requires fast food chains to give their employees more predictab... Posted: Apr 29, 2021 2:02 PM Posted By: CNN New York City is suing Chipotle Mexican Grill, alleging that the company violated a law that requires fast food chains to give their employees more predictable, less hectic schedules. In a lawsuit filed this ...

Chipotle has been sued by New York City over claims it violated scheduling sick leave laws, and now owes over $150 million to workers mmeisenzahl@businessinsider.com (Mary Meisenzahl) New York City is suing Chipotle over accusations of violating labor laws. The complaint says Chipotle owes workers more than $150 million. Chipotle called the case a "dramatic overreach." Popular Searches The city is accusing Chipotle of hundreds of thousands of violations of the Fair Workweek Law,...

The complaint says Chipotle owes workers more than $150 million. Chipotle called the case a "dramatic overreach." New York City has sued Chipotle, accusing the restaurant chain of labor law violations regarding workers schedules at dozens of stores, the New York Times reported Wednesday.  The city is accusing Chipotle of hundreds of thousands of violations of the Fair Workweek Law, which mandates that workers must have 14 day advance notice of schedules or extra pay, and that workers must have...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: More bad news for New York City’s fast food employers. The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department has upheld New York City’s Fair Workweek Law in a decision that rejects a challenge from a coalition of industry groups. As we noted in a prior alert, the Fair Workweek Law was enacted by New York City in 2017 and requires fast food and retail employers to provide worker schedules in advance, giv...

Many fail to realize that creating change can be easier and faster when you look a little closer to home. Boston Women’s March, 2017. (Carly Hagins / Flickr) Like most Americans, my upbringing did not prepare me for advocacy work. As a child in Fall River, Massachusetts—a working class, post-Industrial mill city—the term “lobbying” had no use in my vocabulary and simply sounded lofty and inaccessible. I pictured members of Congress, miles away from Massachusetts, making decisions on b...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last year, several major employment laws were enacted in the State of Illinois, and specifically in the City of Chicago. Employers in Illinois and/or Chicago should be reminded of these laws for 2021. Here are just a few of the highlights: The Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”) was amended to cover “single-employee” employers and to require employers to report to the Illinois Department of Human Rights (“IDHR”) all adverse...

Firing Workers on the Boss’s Whim? New York Puts a Stop to That. American workers have no recourse if they’re fired for no reason. NYC’s new ‘just cause’ law for fast-food workers might begin to end this absurdity. McDonald’s french fries over Times Square, September 2, 2020, in New York New York City just became the first major American city to enact a law that gives a large swath of workers—New York’s 67,000 fast-food workers—“just cause”...