The complaint says Chipotle owes workers more than $150 million.
Chipotle called the case a dramatic overreach.
New York City has sued Chipotle, accusing the restaurant chain of labor law violations regarding workers schedules at dozens of stores, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The city is accusing Chipotle of hundreds of thousands of violations of the Fair Workweek Law, which mandates that workers must have 14 day advance notice of schedules or extra pay, and that workers must have a certain break period between shifts or receive an extra $100, Noam Scheiber at The New York Times first reported.
Chipotle failed to give New York City workers sufficient notice or extra pay, the Times said, citing the complaint. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearing officially filed the suit.
Employers must also provide workers with at least 11 hours between shifts on consecutive days or obtain written consent and pay them $100. The hope is to discourage the practice of forcing workers to work late into the evening and then help open a store in the morning, known as “clopening.”
The provision requiring employers to offer workers additional shifts before hiring new workers was intended to make it easier for workers to earn enough income to sustain themselves.
Employers in fast-food and retail operations often hire more workers at fewer hours to add scheduling flexibility, said Saravanan Kesavan, an expert in retail operations at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Kesavan has conducted research showing that financial performance can actually improve when employers provide more stable and predictable schedules.
Food Delivery Workers Could Get Relief From Council Bills to Open Restaurant Restrooms and Regulate Apps
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Burdened food delivery workers could get relief from upcoming City Council bills that aim to open doors to restaurant restrooms and let them set limits on where they’ll deliver.
Councilmembers Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan), Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) and Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn) told THE CITY they plan on introducing a legislative package Thursday, after months-long conversations between Los Deliveristas Unidos, a collective of mostly immigrant food deliverers.
Among the four bills is a highly anticipated proposal by Rivera that would fine restaurants and bars that refuse to allow a delivery worker to use the restroom charging $50 for the first offense and $100 for every subsequent violation.
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