New York City’s Fast Food Deductions Law requires fast food employers to deduct voluntary payments from fast food workers’ paychecks and send those payments to a nonprofit of a worker’s choosing. The nonprofit must have a registration letter from the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). 

Fast food worker rights include:

• Receiving disclosures from selected nonprofit
• Authorizing employers to deduct voluntary payments from paycheck to send to a selected nonprofit
• Making automatic deductions and payments to selected nonprofits after DCA registers nonprofit
• Revoking authorization to deduct voluntary payments

Fast food workers and employers in NYC can contact the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) about:

• Fast food workers’ legal rights to make contributions to nonprofits through an employer
• Fast food employers’ legal responsibilities to honor employee requests to deduct voluntary payments from paychecks to send to selected nonprofits that have a registration letter from DCA
• Complaints about employers, including failing to deduct voluntary payments from workers' paychecks to send to selected nonprofits
• Information about the Fast Food Deductions Law

You can get more information and assistance from DCA.

Online

• Get more information about the Deductions Law.
• Live Chat with a DCA representative for more information.
  • Live Chat is available for employer inquiries only.
  • When you open the webpage, click the "Live Chat" button. Then, click the button in the middle of the screen that says "Live Chat with a DCA Representative" to open a chat window
• Submit questions by email to FWW@dca.nyc.gov.

By Phone

A DCA representative can answer questions about the law during regular business hours.

Call 311 for assistance.