The owner of seven McDonald’s franchise locations in Brooklyn will pay $1 million in restitution to its employees and more than $92,000 in civil penalties in a settlement after the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protections found he was violating labor laws, the DCWP announced on Monday.
George Mitchell, who operates McDonald’s restaurants from Sunset Park and Kensington to Bedford-Stuyvesant repeatedly violated the city’s Fair Workweek Law, according to the department — even after being investigated and forced to pay up after breaking the fast-food specific regulations in 2019.
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The Fair Workweek Law — first signed into law my then-mayor Bill de Blasio and expanded in 2021 — ensures that fast-food workers are fairly paid and treated by mandating employers to provide regular weekly schedules, provide those schedules to employees at least two weeks in advance, and give employees the chance to decline extra work rather than adding hours to their schedules without notice.
A DCWP investigation found that between February 2019 and December 2020, Mitchell failed to pay employees “premium pay” for last-minute schedule changes; required that employees work back-to-back “clopening” shifts, where they close one night and open the next morning, without warning; and did not give current employees the chance to work extra hours before hiring new workers.
The franchise owner also retaliated against two employees who...
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