NYC’s Protections for Fast-Food Workers Get Second Circuit Test

Restaurant industry groups fighting New York City’s law limiting fast-food companies’ otherwise vast authority to fire workers will get a chance to convince a federal appeals court to strike it down.

A lawyer for the Restaurant Law Center—an affiliate of the National Restaurant Association—and the New York State Restaurant Association is set to appear at oral argument Thursday at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to challenge the city’s 2021 measure requiring just cause to terminate fast-food workers.

The survival of the fast-food workers law could boost more exceptions to the at-will employment doctrine for other types ...