News and Announcements

Attorneys General Write to Amazon and Whole Foods Asking for Assurances on Compliance with State Laws and Federal COVID-19 Guidance

Multistate Coalition Alleges Processing Plants Lack Meaningful Safety Measures to Protect Workers from COVID-19 and that Trump Executive Order Keeping Plants Open Will Cost Lives

AG Healey Leads Multistate Agreements with Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons to Drop Provisions that Limit Recruitment and Hiring of Fast Food Workers

USDOL Rollback of Joint Employer Rule Limits States’ Ability to Hold Employers Accountable

Fast Food Restaurant Chain Significantly Changes Business Practices as a Result of AG’s Investigation

Investigation Reveals more than 13,000 Projected Child Labor Violations at the Restaurant Chain’s Massachusetts Locations

Minimum Wage Set to Increase to $12.75 on Jan. 1, 2020; AG’s Wage and Hour Posters Available in Seven Languages

Defendants Ran “Off-the-Books” Operation and Failed to Pay Employees Minimum Wage and Overtime; Also Pleaded Guilty to Tax and Unemployment Fraud