BOSTON – Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced nearly $1 million in citations against five employers across five different industries for their failure to comply with Massachusetts’ sick time law and other worker protections. The citations include over $690,00 in restitution for impacted workers and over $274,000 in penalties.
The employers who were cited include Tesco Inc., a Woburn temporary staffing agency; Horse N’ Carriage, a Norfolk restaurant; Paixao, Inc., a Ludlow cleaning and janitorial services company; Allied Health Systems, LLC., a home healthcare company in Springfield; and John Oliveira & Sons Stamp Concrete, Inc., a Dartmouth construction company.
Each company was cited for violating the Massachusetts’ Earned Sick Time Law, which provides workers the right to earn and use up to 40 hours of job-protected sick time per year…