Shirt waste: labor regs run wild.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Citings - Brief article

THE employees of a Papa John's franchise just outside of Albany, New York, are required to wear polo shirts to work. In accordance with state labor regulations, owner Christian King provides the red-collared shirts embroidered with the pizza shop's logo to his drivers and cooks.

But after a multiday audit by the New York Department of Labor, the pizza entrepreneur was hit with a $5,535 fine in February because state law requires employers to provide a shirt for each day of work per week. Even drivers who work only short shifts on some days must, by law, have a new shirt each day.

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