reportedly found multiple violations of workers’ rights -- including more than $600,000 in back wages owed to 314 workers.
According to the NJDOL, 27 Boston Market restaurants have been issued orders that require all work to stop under threat of a penalty of $5,000 a day if work continues. “With restaurants across the country, Boston Market needs to set a better example for fair treatment of its workers,” said Joseph Petrecca of the NJDOL, in a statement.
Officials said that the investigation was prompted when the NJDOL’s Division of Wage and Hour and Contract Compliance received a complaint last November from a worker at a Boston Market restaurant in Mercer County.Since then, officials claimed nearly three dozen additional complaints have been received citing issues at Boston Market locations throughout the state.