Comptroller’s ‘Wall of Shame’ Dashboard Reveals NYC’s Top Labor Violators for 2024

Workers can be fired by their employer for numerous workplace infractions, but the widespread violation of workers’ rights often goes underreported. 

For the second year in a row, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is hoping to bring those violations to light by announcing this year’s “Employer Wall of Shame,” a list of companies cited for a hefty number of labor violations in ten categories, including wrongful termination, prevailing wage violations, wage theft, and violations of workplace safety laws.

The list was compiled from data collected through the Comptroller’s Employer Violations Dashboard, which was inaugurated on Labor Day in 2024, as the first-ever citywide tool that tracks and analyzes workplace violation data across federal, state, and city government enforcement agencies. The data includes a breakdown of health and safety violations, wage theft, prevailing wage violations, illegal anti-union tactics, discrimination, and harassment.

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“One year in, the Dashboard has become a powerful resource for shining a light on the city’s worst labor violators,” said Lander in a statement shared with Documented. “Even more so, the Dashboard provides workers, advocates, and city officials with a tool to hold bad actors accountable and fight for a future where every job in New York City is a fair and decent one.”

Among the companies on the list are several home care agencies, as well as Amazon, which also made last year’s list. Many of the employers listed have committed violations related to wage theft, including DoorDash, which made the list for numerous instances of failing to pay workers on time, as Documented has previously reported.  

Also Read: See Which Companies Landed on Comptroller Brad Lander’s Inaugural “Employer Wall of Shame”

Ligia Guallpa, executive director of the Workers’ Justice Project and co-founder of its Los Deliveristas Unidos campaign called the Comptroller’s Wall of Shame “an important tool for exposing the depth of [DoorDash’s] exploitation.”

“While reporting record profits, DoorDash continues to anchor its business model in predatory practices that exploit these workers, treating them as disposable inputs rather than human beings deserving of respect,” she said in a statement shared with Documented. 

The dashboard now includes, for the first time, data from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) on “immediately hazardous” violations of construction safety codes committed by building contractor employers. Data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on New York City-based violations can also be found in this year’s dashboard, along with data from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP). 

New data from the DCWP cites violations of app-based restaurant delivery worker pay laws, the Grocery Worker Retention Act, and “just cause” protections for fast food workers.

Brendan Griffith, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, applauded the comptroller’s office for exposing the myriad of violations working New Yorkers endure on a daily basis.

“By tracking these violations in greater detail, and making this information publicly available, the

Employer Violations Dashboard will help protect workplace safety, prevent wage theft, and defend the right of every worker to organize and be treated with dignity and respect,” he said in a statement shared with Documented.
 
This year, the comptroller’s office has updated the dashboard to include data sourced from 2020 to 2024. Last year’s dashboard only included data between 2020 and 2023. 

This year’s Employer Wall of Shame recipients are: 

• Alpha Wave Global LP: In 2024, Alpha Wave Global LP paid $85,000 for retaliatory firings in response to complaints about race and sexual orientation-based discrimination. The settlement was secured by the NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).

• Amazon: The mega-retailer has the highest number of open Unfair Labor Practice (“ULPs”) allegations between 2020- 2024. Currently, the company has 180 alleged ULPs in 68 open cases.

• Cava: The Mediterranean fast casual restaurant settled with DCWP in 2024, paying $1.4 million to 1,168 workers for violations of the Fair Work Week and the Paid Safe and Sick Leave laws.

• Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation: According to the NY Department of Labor, this employer owed the most in unpaid wages to NYC-based workers in 2024. They also have a recent settlement with the company, securing $467,848 in back pay.

• DoorDash: The app-based delivery company has had at least 17 separate instances of failing to pay workers weekly as required under city law. Through DCWP’s settlements, DoorDash paid a cumulative total of nearly $24,300 in restitution to workers. Previously, the New York State Attorney General secured a settlement for $16.75 million with DoorDash for failing to pay workers their tips between 2017 and 2019. 

• Edison Home Health Care of New York, LLC & Preferred Home Healthcare of New York, LLC: In 2024, both companies settled with the State Attorney General for failing to pay home health aides wage standards set by the New York Wage Parity Act. The $7.5 million settlement is the largest wage and hour legal settlement for a prosecutorial agency in New York history.

• Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency: In 2024, the Brooklyn home care agency was ordered by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay $400,000 in a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit. 

• Montis Construction LLC: The Comptroller’s office debarred the employer for violating prevailing wage laws, paying $69,000 in back pay after failing to pay the prevailing wage and falsifying payroll records on a New York City Transit Authority-funded project.

• NY Developers & Management: The employer received back-to-back “Aggravated II” Department of Buildings penalties for failing to institute safety measures. Both investigations were triggered by worker injuries.

• Zito Roofing Inc: In 2024, the employer failed to provide workers with fall protections, such as guardrails, safety nets, or harnesses, to employees working on a roof in South Brooklyn. 

To look up your employer, the data can be found here: Employer Violations Dashboard

If you wish to file a complaint against an employer for an illegal violation of workplace protection laws, you may file a complaint with the following agencies:

Discrimination and Harassment:

Prevailing Wage Violations:

New York City Worker Protection and Workplace Laws (See list of laws):

Unfair Labor Practices (See List of NLRB-protected Rights):

Wage Theft:

Workplace Safety Hazards: