{"id":57499,"date":"2025-12-01T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:13:08","slug":"starbucks-to-pay-35m-to-nyc-workers-to-settle-claims-it-violated-labor-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57499\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers to settle claims it violated labor law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n

The company will also pay $3.4 million in civil penalties\u00a0under the agreement<\/a>\u00a0with the city\u2019s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. It also agrees to comply with the city\u2019s\u00a0Fair Workweek law<\/a>\u00a0going forward.<\/p>\n

A company spokeswoman said Starbucks is committed to operating responsibly and in compliance with all applicable local laws and regulations in every market where it does business, but also noted the complexities of the city\u2019s law.<\/p>\n

\"AStarbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours. Above, protesters at a picket line in Brooklyn last month. Yoav Ginsburg\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis (law) is notoriously challenging to manage and this isn\u2019t just a Starbucks issue, nearly every retailer in the city faces these roadblocks,\u201d spokeswoman Jaci Anderson said.<\/p>\n

Most of the affected employees who held hourly positions will receive $50 for each week worked from July 2021 through July 2024, the department said. Workers who experienced a violation after that may be eligible for compensation by filing a complaint with the department.<\/p>\n

The $38.9 million settlement also guarantees employees laid off during recent store closings<\/a> in the city will get the chance for reinstatement at other company locations.<\/p>\n

The city began investigating in 2022 after receiving dozens of worker complaints against several Starbucks locations, and eventually expanded its investigation to the hundreds of stores in the city. <\/p>\n

\"Close-upThe city began investigating in 2022 after receiving dozens of worker complaints against several Starbucks locations, and eventually expanded its investigation to the hundreds of stores in the city. AP<\/p>\n

The probe found most Starbucks employees never got regular schedules and the company routinely reduced employees\u2019 hours by more than 15%, making it difficult for staffers to know their regular weekly earnings and plan other commitments, such as child care, education or other jobs.<\/p>\n

The company also routinely denied workers the chance to pick up extra shifts, leaving them involuntarily in part-time status, according to the city.<\/p>\n

The agreement with New York comes as Starbucks\u2019 union continues a nationwide strike at dozens of locations that\u00a0began last month<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The number of affected stores and the strike\u2019s impact remain in dispute by the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,31108,57,9,24,55,54,56,5591,14094],"class_list":["post-57499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-business","tag-hirings-and-firings","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-settlements","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}