Starbucks has agreed to pay $38.9 million to settle claims by New York City that the coffee chain violated a local law requiring fast food businesses to give workers predictable and stable schedules more than half a million times over a three-year period, Mayor Eric Adams’ office said on Monday.

The settlement, which caps a three-year investigation by the city, is the largest involving a worker protection law in New York City’s history, Adams’ office said in a release. Starbucks routinely failed to provide regular schedules to employees, cut workers’ scheduled hours without obtaining their written consent, and gave shifts to new hires without first offering them to existing employees, all in violation of a 2017 city law, according to a Nov. 26 settlement agreement.

The settlement require

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