Walgreens New York City Fair Workweek worker restitution

Who may be eligible

New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced on July 6, 2026 that Walgreens would pay more than $1.6 million in restitution to more than 570 workers at three Brooklyn stores, plus $163,000 in penalties, after finding it had not given workers 72 hours' advance notice of their schedules as the city's Fair Workweek Law requires. There is nothing to file: DCWP identified the workers from company records and says it will contact those who are eligible about how to be paid. If you worked at one of those Brooklyn stores you may be eligible, so the thing worth doing is making sure the agency and your employer have a current address and phone number for you. Nothing in this process costs anything.

The notice states no state limit, so it is usually nationwide. Covered: Retail work at Walgreens stores in Brooklyn.

Only the official administrator or agency decides who is paid, and its own page is the authority on who is covered.

How much it may pay

Share of a $1.6M fund. Every figure here is an estimate from public materials, not a guarantee: many settlements pay pro rata or only after a claims review, so final amounts commonly land well below the advertised maximum.

There is no claim form. DCWP identified the workers from the employer's own records and says it will contact eligible workers about how to be paid, so the useful step is making sure the agency and the employer have a current address and phone number for you. Fair Workweek restitution is worked out from the premiums owed for each scheduling violation, so amounts differ from worker to worker and none is guaranteed.

DCWP puts the Walgreens settlement at more than $1.6 million in restitution for workers plus $163,000 in civil penalties. The penalties go to the city; the restitution is what workers are paid from.

What the deadline is

There is no claim deadline because there is nothing to file. The official page says when payments go out and how long a check or digital payment stays valid once sent.

DCWP announced the settlement on July 6, 2026 and has not published a payment date for these stores; the agency says it will contact eligible workers about how to get paid.

What proof is needed

No claim to file — payments are sent automatically.

The administrator pays consumers it has already identified, so the useful step is to make sure it can reach you, not to file anything. Anyone offering to file this for you, for a fee, is selling you nothing.

How to file for free

There is no claim form. The official program page, run by New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, explains who is being paid and how to reach the administrator if a payment is expected and has not arrived.

Never give a Social Security number, bank login or card number to a site that is not the official administrator or agency page.

Why this case happened

New York City's Fair Workweek Law requires retail employers to give workers their schedules well in advance, to get written consent before adding hours, and to pay premiums when a schedule changes late. DCWP investigated three Brooklyn Walgreens stores and found the company had not given workers 72 hours' advance notice of their schedules. In a settlement announced on July 6, 2026 as part of a wider enforcement sweep, Walgreens agreed to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution to more than 570 workers, along with $163,000 in civil penalties.