September 4, 2026

Dashboard Released Ahead of Labor Day Highlights Employers with Worst Violations of Workers’ Rights in 2025 

New York, NY — The Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine today released the 2026 edition of the Employer Violations Dashboard – a tool that consolidates data from federal, state, and city enforcement agencies – to identify employers who violated key labor laws across the five boroughs.  

Launched on Labor Day in 2024 and updated annually, the Comptroller’s Employer Violations Dashboard tracks private employers’ violations of a range of workplace laws, including health and safety violations, wage theft, prevailing wage violations, illegal interference with unionization efforts, and discrimination and harassment.  

“New York City has a rich history in the labor movement to secure hard-fought rights,” said Comptroller Mark Levine. “The Employer Violations Dashboard is an essential tool to hold bad actors accountable and help working New Yorkers understand who does or does not foster a healthy work environment.”  

The Comptroller’s Bureau of Labor Law compiles labor violations investigated by government agencies and provides detailed information on offenses committed by private sector employers, including some contracted by public entities, within New York City between 2024-2025. The information can be searched by violation or by employer, and the full dataset is available for download. 

The Employer Violations Dashboard most notably highlights employers with the most frequent and severe violations. Last year, employers cited for being the worst in New York City for violating federal, state, and city laws included Starbucks, Amazon, Door Dash, among others (Listed alphabetically): 

Alba Services, Inc., a company specializing in demolition and carting that along with its owner and affiliates, entered into a $1.5 million settlement with the New York State Office of the Attorney General for nearly a decade of worker exploitation and abuse affecting over 700 employees.  

Amazon had the highest number of open Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) claims for the full period encompassed by the Dashboard, from 2020 to 2025. The e-commerce company had 197 alleged ULPs in 75 open cases, including scores of allegations of illegal interference in union organizing. 

Americare, a licensed home care services agency, had the largest wage and hour legal settlement with the Attorney General’s Office last year, paying $45 million to more than 10,000 current and former employees.  Americare failed to pay home health aides the full compensation they were entitled to over a six-year period under the New York State Wage Parity Act. 

Champion Electrical Mechanical Builder Corp. reached a settlement with the Comptroller’s Office for failure to pay prevailing wages to six workers on public work construction projects and for falsifying payroll records. The settlement totaled $295,901.08, including interest and civil penalties, and the contractor is barred from bidding on or being awarded public works contracts with the City of New York for five years. 

Door Dash had the largest state-level settlement for deceptive tipping practices after its $16.75 million agreement with the Attorney General’s Office. An investigation found that DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had guaranteed to its delivery drivers.  

Fresh & Co. was ordered by the New York City Commission on Human Rights to pay a worker $45,000, plus an additional $60,000 in civil penalties, for failing to prevent sexual harassment at one of the locations. In this case, the worker had been routinely verbally and sexually harassed by a staff member in a supervisory role. 

INS Handbags, Inc. and its owner paid more than $200,000 to a former employee after the Commission on Human Rights determined it forced the pregnant worker into a less safe retail location over her objections, wrongfully terminated her because of her pregnancy, and failed to distribute legally mandated notices regarding workplace rights. 

JAB Industries Inc., a construction company that works on both commercial and residential properties, failed to address an excavation hazard on a construction site in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, leading them, in 2025, to receive the two most severe violations for workplace safety tracked in the Dashboard – one violation from the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the other from the New York City Department of Buildings.  

Starbucks was required to pay $38.9 million in restitution and civil penalties to over 15,000 workers for violations of the Fair Workweek Law in what became last year’s largest settlement with the New York City Department Consumer and Worker Protection. The coffee company was noncompliant with many aspects of the Fair Workweek Law, including not providing its employees at more than 300 locations with stable and predictable schedules, not giving employees the opportunity to pick up additional hours, and failing to  state a performance-related reason when shifts were reduced by 15%. Last year, Starbucks also had three violations in two closed ULP cases related to bad faith bargaining and illegal discharge of workers.

You can view the Employer Violations Dashboard here: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/employer-violations-dashboard/about-the-dashboard/

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