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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 a certain break period between shifts or receive an extra $100, Noam Scheiber at The New York Time...

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, give current employees priority in working shifts that become available or open, and make certain premi...

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 behalf of my community. There were no paths clear to me as to how I could be a part of the changemaki...

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 judgements and rulings relating to harassment and discrimination; Employees covered by the Chicago ...

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” protections, meaning that these workers can only be fired for a legitimate reason, that their emplo...