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A Dunkin\u2019 Donuts location in New York City.<\/p>\n
amNY Media Archives<\/p>\n
Twenty-one Staten Island Dunkin\u2019 Donuts<\/a> found themselves in hot water with the city Monday as the agency tasked with enforcing worker rights laws accused them of violating a slew of protections for over 1,000 employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dunkin\u2019 didn\u2019t provide regular, written, advance schedules to employees, didn\u2019t pay employees when they used their sick time and never properly informed them of the amount of sick time they were entitled to, according to the complaint filed by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection against Dunkin\u2019 and Ronny Nadler of \u200b\u200bQSR Management LLC, the franchisee that owns the 21 stores accused of violating the city\u2019s Fair Workweek Law<\/a> and Protected Time Off Law<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf DCWP sees you break the law, we will not hesitate to bring you to court \u2013 especially when it comes to repeat scofflaws,\u201d DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine said in a statement. \u201cCompliance is not optional.\u201d<\/p>\n Employees at those 21 locations also weren\u2019t paid extra for short notice schedule changes or working \u201cclopenings,\u201d or back-to-back shifts where an employee closes the store, then works the shift to open it the next morning, nor did managers obtain written consent from them to work additional hours, requirements of the Fair Workweek Law, the complaint alleges.\u00a0<\/p>\n The department seeks millions in damages for the violations, up to half of which may be paid to workers directly.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The department also reached a $1.5 million settlement against a different Dunkin\u2019 and Taco Bell franchisee and a roughly quarter-million-dollar settlement against clothing store Theory for similar Fair Workweek Law violations, stemming from suits filed by former DCWP commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga under ex-Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration, first reported<\/a> by The CITY.\u00a0<\/p>\n That money will go to the roughly 760 Dunkin\u2019 and Taco Bell employees across 24 locations in Manhattan and Queens and 60 Theory employees impacted by the companies\u2019 failure to provide them with stable, consistent schedules or pay premiums for \u201cclopening\u201d shifts, according to DCWP.<\/p>\n Dunkin\u2019 and Theory did not respond to requests for comment from amNewYork Law.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Resources needed to get workers relief\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n