Starbucks agrees to pay workers $38M to settle scheduling law probe
December 3, 2025
Starbucks will pay $38M after NYC found over 500K scheduling law violations, securing major restitution and stronger protections for workers.
Starbucks will pay $38M after NYC found over 500K scheduling law violations, securing major restitution and stronger protections for workers.
IRS and CFPB workers face overcrowded, unsafe conditions as Trump admin cuts support to push them out, officials say.
SOCIAL WORKERS RALLIED at the state Capitol on Wednesday to advocate for the Social Work Workforce Act.
Negligence claims, workplace safety standards, sidewalk maintenance, and comparative negligence and emergency doctrine defenses.
Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike.
U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike.
From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern United States are on strike for the first time in decades.
THREE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS WILL RECEIVE AWARDS totaling up to $646 million over the next three years.
CITYWIDE — THE CITY’S UTILITY workers’ union, on Sunday, announced that a tentative consensus for a new four-year contract agreement had been reached between the union and Con Edison after
Attorney General Letitia James and City Comptroller Brad Lander announced a settlement on Monday totaling nearly $230,000 with Allied Universal Security Services and the board of managers of a Manhattan
A Brooklyn woman stands accused of stealing more than $160,000 while working as a window clerk at a Bensonhurst post office. Sherrin Saddler, 34, was arraigned on Thursday on an
When people think about making elections secure, they often think about voting machines, cybersecurity and mechanical threats. They don’t think about people. Since 2016, when there was evidence of computer
In the Summer of 2022, an idealistic coffee shop — aptly named Principles — opened in Gowanus. This shop serves up specialty coffee and vegan baked goods in a bike-friendly
For emergency workers, first responders, utility workers and contractors, knowledge about the spatial arrangement of subsurface waste and water systems, electricity and gas service, transit tunnels and more is crucial
This afternoon dozens of small property owners, contractors, and brokers gathered near Grand Central Station to hold a rally and protest against the proposed Good Cause Eviction legislation in the
New York might be on track to exhaust its $2.1 billion pandemic relief fund for undocumented workers, just weeks after it began accepting applications. Advocacy groups for immigrant workers are
This article was originally published on Jul 5 at 8:27pm EDT by THE CITY. Straphangers suffered through more than 10,600 canceled subway trips in June due to a shortage of
Voters began lining up before 6 a.m. at William E. Grady High School in Sheepshead Bay on Tuesday. And they waited. And waited. The site’s Board of Elections coordinators had
The Walentas Family Foundation on Tuesday announced the first winners of The David Prize, a new annual award granted to trailblazing, as-yet-unrecognized New Yorkers with progressive visions to improve New
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here. As New York City’s middle and high school buildings reopened
Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park has received $17,675,813.99 for Maimonides Medical Center in emergency federal funds administered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it was announced on Friday. Specifically,
Mayor Bill de Blasio is confident that New York City will meet a revised timeline to bring public school students back to classrooms within the next two weeks, following closures
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he and about 500 other city employees will take one-week, unpaid furloughs from their jobs in the coming months as
New York City postponed the start of its school year by several days to allow more preparation to reopen classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, announcing a delay Tuesday after teachers
Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections. Health care industry leaders,
New York City celebrated its first day with no COVID-19 related deaths over the weekend, but as the number of cases across the country continues to set records, Chief Judge
A report published this week by the Center for an Urban Future reveals that a growing number of nonprofit organizations, including many in Brooklyn and Queens, are experiencing financial losses
Musicians to play together, separately Isolated musicians across the city will play as one next week in a show of support for frontline workers, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Tenth
On the front lines of the war on COVID-19, there are many civilian heroes going out of their way, as volunteers and contributors. Also, many who are elected to serve
Less than a week after a historic draft haul, which included two-time Wooden Award winner Sabrina Ionescu, the Brooklyn-based New York Liberty on Wednesday added two new assistants to head
NEW YORK (AP) — Usually a welcome harbinger of spring and summer, Mister Softee’s signature jingle has made a startling juxtaposition to the piercing wails of ambulances on Brooklyn’s otherwise
Malliotakis: Repurpose former Victory Hospital With more hospital beds needed during the coronavirus outbreak, Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis (R-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) is urging the use of the former Victory Memorial Hospital
“We are suspicious of the president’s motives for signing this executive order.”
As the number of children and teens treated in emergency rooms for mental health emergencies climbs — and at least one New York pol has called for excusable mental health