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New York City has some of the strongest worker protection laws of any locality in the country. Many of these laws are enforced by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) and expand protections beyond wages, ensuring paid safe and sick leave and requiring employers to provide regular work schedules in certain industries. The following charts present data on employers that were investigated for a set of key DCWP-enforced laws that resulted in them paying restitution and/or civil penalties. The laws in the charts below show restitution obtained under the Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law (“PSSL”), which ensures that workers have the ability to use safe and sick leave for the care and treatment of themselves or a family member; the Fair Workweek Law (“FWW”), which requires fast food, retail, and utility safety employers to provide predictable schedules to their employees; the Grocery Worker Retention Act (“GWR”), which requires new grocery store owners to retain employees of the previous owner for a 90-day transitional period following a change in control of the grocery store; and pay protections for App-based restaurant delivery workers, which require these workers to be paid weekly.

The cases listed are negotiated settlements stemming from investigations that resulted in restitution and penalties and do not include adjudicated violations.