Starbucks will pay $38.9 million in civil penalties and barista backpay after violating New York City’s Fair Workweek Law in the city’s largest worker protection settlement ever, officials said Monday.

The settlement stems from a 2022 investigation and subsequent lawsuit by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, who found that, since 2021, Starbucks committed more than half a million violations of the city’s Fair Workweek Law, which provides workers with protections like the right to a predictable schedule. The department found Starbucks was illegally denying thousands of workers across more than 300 locations the right to stable and predictable schedules, as well as the right to pick up additional hours and earn more.

”For too long, Starbucks has acted with impu

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