Attorney General Andrea Campbell is citing the owner of more than 80 Dunkin' franchises in Massachusetts, as well as companies that operate McDonald's and Subway locations in the state, for alleged child labor law violations.
Cafua Management Company, which operates the Dunkin stores, was fined $140,000 as part of a settlement agreement with Campbell's office. The attorney general says that between 2020 and 2023, Cafua did not get work permits for employing minors, allowed them to work during legally prohibited hours, and had 16 and 17-year-old employees working for more than nine hours a day. Minors were also working without an immediate adult supervisor after 8 p.m., Campbell said.
Cafua runs Dunkin locations in Billerica, Burlington, Charlestown, Chelmsford, Chicopee, Danvers, Dracut, Fall River, Grafton, Great Barrington, Lawrence, Lee, Lowell, Medford, Methuen, Millbury, North Andover, Peabody, Pittsfield, Salisbury, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Tyngsboro, Westboro, Westford and Worcester.
The McDonald's operator, the Brewster Company, was fined nearly $64,000 for similar violations between 2021 and 2024, Campbell said. Brewster manages eight McDonald's in Everett, Hanover, Malden, Norwell, Quincy, Revere, Weymouth and Woburn.
Campbell said the Subway franchise operator, Knight Food Service, also didn't obtain work permits for minors, had them work more than nine hours a day, employed minors to work without an adult supervisor after 8 p.m., and failed to provide meal...
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