Violations
Local NYC Labor Law
Last updated August 30, 2024New 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; and the Fair Workweek Law (“FWW”), which requires fast food, retail, and employers to provide predictable schedules to their employees.
The cases listed are negotiated settlements stemming from investigations that resulted in restitution and penalties and do not include adjudicated violations.
DCWP Settlements
DCWP Settlements, 2023 (More than $100K)
DCWP Settlements, 2023 (More than $20K Paid)
DCWP Settlements, 2020-2022, (More than $1M Paid )
DCWP Settlements, 2020-2022, (More than $100K Paid)
Includes DCWP investigations related to the above-listed laws that resulted in restitution payments and/or monetary penalties that were closed in either 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023. The variable “amount recovered” represents the total of all payments made by those respective employers as a result of an investigation, including restitution and civil penalty payments. The data in each chart show aggregated totals from all closed investigations within the specific listed timeframe, with some employers appearing in multiple cases across the data. Some of the investigations in the dataset included investigations into violations of both the Fair Workweek and Paid Safe and Sick Leave Laws, which are noted as such above. The 2023 charts list only those cases where the total amount recovered was greater than $20K while the 2020 – 2022 charts list those cases where the total amount recovered was greater than $100K. The charts for both timeframes were split into two in order to account for differences in the monetary size of the settlements. Specifically, between those cases with very large amounts paid by some employers at the top of each timeframe, and lower but still significant amounts paid by other employers.