Employer Violations Dashboard<\/a>\u00a0tracks\u00a0private employers\u2019\u00a0violations of a range of\u00a0workplace\u00a0laws, including health and safety violations, wage theft, prevailing wage violations, illegal interference with unionization efforts, and discrimination and harassment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cNew York City has a rich history in the labor movement to secure hard-fought rights,\u201d said\u00a0Comptroller Mark Levine<\/b>.\u00a0\u201cThe Employer Violations Dashboard is an essential tool to hold bad actors accountable\u00a0and help working New Yorkers understand who does or does not foster a healthy work environment.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Comptroller\u2019s Bureau of Labor Law\u00a0compiles\u00a0labor 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Employer Violations Dashboard\u00a0most notably\u00a0highlights employers with the most frequent and severe violations.\u00a0Last 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\u00a0(Listed alphabetically):\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alba Services, Inc.<\/b>,\u00a0a company specializing in demolition and carting that along with its owner and affiliates,\u00a0entered into\u00a0a $1.5 million settlement with the New York State Office of the Attorney General for\u00a0nearly a\u00a0decade of worker exploitation and abuse affecting over 700 employees.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amazon<\/b>\u00a0had the highest number of open Unfair Labor Practices\u00a0(ULP)\u00a0claims for the full period encompassed by the Dashboard, from 2020 to 2025.\u00a0The e-commerce company had\u00a0197 alleged ULPs in 75 open cases, including scores of allegations of illegal interference in union organizing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Americare<\/b>, a licensed home care services agency, had the largest\u00a0wage and\u00a0hour legal settlement with the Attorney General\u2019s Office last year, paying $45 million to more than 10,000 current and former employees. \u202fAmericare\u00a0failed to\u00a0pay home health aides the full compensation they\u00a0were entitled to\u00a0over a six-year period\u00a0under the New York State Wage Parity Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Champion Electrical Mechanical Builder Corp.\u00a0<\/b>reached a settlement with the Comptroller\u2019s 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\u00a0is barred from\u00a0bidding on or being awarded public works contracts\u00a0with the\u00a0City\u00a0of New York for\u00a0five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Door Dash\u00a0<\/b>had the largest\u00a0state-level settlement for deceptive tipping practices after its\u00a0$16.75 million agreement with the Attorney General\u2019s Office. An investigation found that DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had guaranteed to its delivery drivers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fresh & Co.<\/b>\u00a0was ordered\u00a0by the New York City Commission on Human Rights to pay a worker $45,000, plus an\u00a0additional\u00a0$60,000 in\u00a0civil penalties, for\u00a0failing to prevent\u00a0sexual harassment at one of the locations. In this case, the worker had been routinely verbally and\u00a0sexually harassed by a staff member in a supervisory role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
INS Handbags, Inc.\u00a0<\/b>and its owner paid more than $200,000 to a former employee after the Commission on\u00a0Human Rights\u00a0determined it\u00a0forced\u00a0the\u00a0pregnant 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
JAB Industries Inc.<\/b>, 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\u00a0them,\u00a0in 2025, to\u00a0receive\u00a0the two most severe violations for workplace safety tracked in the Dashboard \u2013 one\u00a0violation\u00a0from the federal\u00a0government\u2019s\u00a0Occupational Safety and Health Administration and\u00a0the other from the New York City Department of Buildings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starbucks\u00a0<\/b>was required\u00a0to pay $38.9 million in restitution and civil penalties to over 15,000 workers for violations of the Fair Workweek\u00a0L<\/b>aw in what became last year\u2019s largest settlement with the New York City Department\u00a0Consumer and Worker Protection.\u00a0The coffee company was noncompliant with many aspects of the Fair Workweek Law,\u00a0including\u00a0not\u00a0providing\u00a0its employees at more than 300 locations with stable and predictable schedules,\u00a0not giving employees\u00a0the opportunity to pick up additional hours,\u00a0and failing\u00a0to\u00a0\u00a0state\u00a0a\u00a0performance-related reason when shifts were reduced by 15%.\u00a0Last year, Starbucks also had three violations in two closed ULP cases related to bad faith bargaining and illegal discharge of workers.<\/p>\n
You can view the Employer Violations Dashboard here:\u00a0https:\/\/comptroller.nyc.gov\/services\/for-the-public\/employer-violations-dashboard\/about-the-dashboard\/<\/a><\/p>\n###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 4, 2026 Dashboard Released Ahead of Labor Day Highlights Employers with Worst Violations of Workers’ Rights in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1043309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117214013600259720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}