New Jersey closes 27 Boston Markets after finding 'violations of workers’ rights,’ $600K in wages owed
Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com
New Jersey has issued stop-work orders at 27 Boston Market restaurant locations across the state after labor officials say they found «multiple violations of workers’ rights, including more than $600,000 in back wages owed to 314 workers.»
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) said it started investigating the restaurant chain known for its rotisserie chicken after receiving a complaint last November from an employee working at a location in Mercer County,
«Since then, nearly three dozen additional complaints have been received naming several New Jersey Boston Market locations. Initial findings included citations for: unpaid/late payment of wages, hindrance of the investigation, failure to pay minimum wage, records violations, failure to pay earned sick leave, and failure to maintain records for earned sick leave,» the agency said in a statement.
The temporarily closed restaurants are in Avenel, Blackwood, Clifton, East Brunswick, East Hanover, East Orange, Edison, Emerson, Ewing Township, Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Hamilton, Howell, Lodi, Mahwah, Mount Holly, North Arlington, North Vale, Ridgefield, Shrewsbury, Somerset, Succasunna, Union, Vineland, Waldwick and Woodbury.
TACO BELL CUSTOMER CLAIMS ‘PAY-IT-FORWARD SCAM’ LED TO CONFRONTATION THAT LEFT HER ‘SCARED’
A woman leaves a Boston Market that has a stop-work order posted on the door in Hackensack, New Jersey, on Thursday, Aug. 17. (AP/Seth Wenig / AP Newsroom)
Boston Market did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from FOX Business.
«With restaurants across the country, Boston Market needs to set a better example for fair treatment of its workers,» Joseph Petrecca,
Read more on foxbusiness.com
