Comptroller Lander Exposes Worst Employers in NYC, Updates Comprehensive Violations Dashboard

Comptroller Lander Exposes Worst Employers in NYC, Updates Comprehensive Violations Dashboard

New York, NY - New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced the 2025 updates to his Office's Employer Violations Dashboard and revealed this year's "Employer Wall of Shame," a list of companies cited for egregious violations in ten categories including wrongful termination, prevailing wage violations, wage theft, and willful violations of workplace safety laws. Launched on Labor Day in 2024, the Comptroller's Employer Violations Dashboard is the first-ever citywide transparency and accountability tool to track and analyze workplace violations data across federal, state, and city government enforcement agencies.

"The public has a right to know when companies put the livelihoods and safety of workers at risk," said New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. "One year in, the dashboard has become a powerful resource for shining a light on the city's worst labor violators. Even more so, the dashboard provides workers, advocates, and City officials with a tool to hold bad actors accountable and fight for a future where every job in New York City is a fair and decent one."

Developed by the Comptroller's Workers' Rights team, the dashboard provides an accessible resource for data on violations of worker protection laws, and most notably, highlights employers with the most frequent and severe violations. In the first year, the tool became a resource for unions and workers' rights organizations in their organizing and campaigns, and for City procurement officers to properly vet potential contractors.

2025 Dashboard Updates

This Labor Day, the Office made significant expansions to the dashboard's scope and granularity:

• Updated data sets for 2024: The dashboard now includes the most recent data from 2024, providing the public and engaged stakeholders with the most-up-to-date data on employer/employee relations.
• Expansion of NYC worker violations data: For the first time, the dashboard includes data from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) on Immediately Hazardous violations of construction safety codes committed by building contractor employers. In addition, the dashboard incorporates new data from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) to include for the first time violations of app-based restaurant delivery worker pay laws, the Grocery Worker Retention Act, and "just cause" protections for fast food workers.
• Greater detail for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations: This year, the Comptroller's Office included information on New York City-based OSHA violations to indicate whether an investigation was triggered by a workplace fatality.

2024 Worst Employers

Comptroller Lander and his Office's Bureau of Labor Law and Workers Rights named the following employers to the "Employer Wall of Shame" for their flagrant violations of state, federal, and city laws. (Listed alphabetically)

• Alpha Wave Global LP: As the largest settlement with the NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in 2024, Alpha Wave Global LP paid $85,000 for retaliatory firings in response to complaints about race and sexual orientation-based discrimination.
• Amazon: The highest number of open Unfair Labor Practice (ULPs) allegations in the cumulative period of 2020- 2024. To date, Amazon has 180 alleged ULPs in 68 open cases. The next highest entity, Consolidated Edison, had 27 ULPs, a difference of nearly 148%.
• Cava: After settling with DCWP in 2024, Cava paid $1.4 million to 1,168 workers for violations of the Fair Work Week and the Paid Safe and Sick Leave laws.
• Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation: According to the State's Department of Labor, the employer owed the most in unpaid wages to NYC-based workers in 2024. A recent settlement with the company secured $467,848 in back wages to workers.
• DoorDash: In at least 17 separate instances, the employer failed to pay workers weekly, as is required for app-based delivery companies under City law. Through DCWP's settlements, DoorDash paid a cumulative total of nearly $24,300 in restitution to workers.
• Edison Home Health Care of New York, LLC and Preferred Home Healthcare of New York, LLC: In 2024, the employer settled with the State Attorney General for failing to pay home health aides wage standards set by the New York Wage Parity Act. The $7.5 million settlement is the largest wage and hour legal settlements for a prosecutorial agency.
• Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency: In 2024, the employer completed the largest workplace discrimination settlement by a New York City employer in 2024 after settling with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) for $400,000 for race-based discrimination in work assignments.
• Montis Construction LLC: The Office of the Comptroller debarred the employer for violation of prevailing wage laws, paying $69,000 in backpay for failing to pay prevailing wage and falsifying payroll records on an New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA)-funded project.
• NY Developers & Management: The employer received back-to-back "Aggravated II" DOB penalties for failing to institute safety measures, with both investigations triggered by worker injuries.
• Zito Roofing Inc.: The employer received the only willful violation to date for an incident that occurred in 2024 within New York City. The employer failed to provide mandated fall protections-such as guardrails, safety nets, or harnesses-to employees working on a roof in South Brooklyn.

Since its launch, the Comptroller's Workers' Rights' team conducted multiple trainings sessions for unions, advocacy groups, and elected officials on how to use the dashboard.

"We commend Comptroller Lander and his team for expanding this important tool to expose employers who violate labor laws and exploit working people," said Brendan Griffith, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. "By tracking these violations in greater detail, and making this information publicly available, the Employer Violations Dashboard will help protect workplace safety, prevent wage theft, and defend the right of every worker to organize and be treated with dignity and respect."

"Far too often unscrupulous employers get away with violating labor laws and the rights of their employees, who are just trying to make ends meet and support their families. Many times, even if they are fined, there is no public record of these transgressions," said Gary LaBarbera, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. "Hardworking New Yorkers deserve to know whether their employers or potential employers are committing labor violations so that they can make informed decisions about their careers and be better prepared to advocate for themselves in the workplace. This is why we applaud Comptroller Lander for establishing and expanding this labor violations tracker. Incorporating additional information from the Department of Buildings and OSHA will not only bring on more accountability but also discourage employers from committing these violations from the jump. Every New Yorker deserves to work in a safe and compliant environment that not only adheres to the law, but also pays fair wages and treats the workforce with dignity and respect."

"Laborers' Local 1010 stands firm in holding bad actors in the construction industry accountable. That's why we support the New York City Employer Violations Dashboard - a vital tool that shines a light on employers who exploit or endanger their workforce. With transparency and accountability, we are building safer, fairer, and more ethical workplaces for all," said Lowell Barton, Vice President & Organizing Director, Laborers' Local 1010, LIUNA.

"At a time when union rights are being stripped nationally, it is more important than ever to highlight companies who treat violating labor laws as the cost of doing business," said Dennis Trainor, Vice President of CWA District 1. "This dashboard is an important tool to shine a light on bad actors who consistently undermine workers' rights to organize, skirt prevailing wage laws, and disregard workplace safety. We thank Comptroller Brad Lander for reminding employers that New York City is and will always be a union town."

"The Comptroller's Employer Violations Dashboard is the first place our organizers check when they encounter an unfamiliar contractor," said Oona Adams, Director of Organizing of Organizing at Laborers Local 79. "We appreciate having an aggregated credible source of information on violations of workers rights."

"For many years, Comptroller Lander has not only stood with workers in their fights for dignity and justice, but he has also worked to build a city that reflects these values. Too often, unscrupulous employers think they can violate the rights of their workers with zero accountability or consequences," said Julie Bracero Kelly, General Manager of the NY NJ Regional Joint Board of Workers United. "The Employer Violations Dashboard and Employer Wall of Shame help expose bad employers and hold them accountable. We are excited that his office has continued their diligent work on this tool to make it clear to all employers that if they want to do business in this city, then they must respect the rights of their workers.

"It's not surprising that Amazon has set a record as one of New York City's more frequent violators of labor law. The Teamsters will continue to hold this $2 trillion corporate criminal accountable for its egregious anti-worker actions, both in the courts and on the streets, said Connor Spence, President of the Amazon Labor Union-Teamsters Local 1."

"We applaud Comptroller Lander for shining a light on the scale of DoorDash's repeated and systemic abuses of the predominantly immigrant app delivery workforce in New York City-including illegally withholding the wages workers depend on to survive and discriminating against nearly 2,900 job applicants because of their criminal history," said Ligia Guallpa, Executive Director of Worker's Justice Project and Co-Founder of its Los Deliveristas Unidos campaign. "While reporting record profits, DoorDash continues to anchor its business model in predatory practices that exploit these workers, treating them as disposable inputs rather than human beings deserving of respect. The Comptroller's new Wall of Shame is an important tool for exposing the depth of this exploitation and for underscoring the urgent need for stronger enforcement and structural industry reforms to ensure dignity, fair pay, and justice for deliveristas and all workers in our city."

The updated Employer Violation Dashboard can be accessed at: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/employer-violations-dashboard/employer-wall-of-shame/

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