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Dunkin' Donuts
OSHA: 2 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: 34 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Dunkin' Donuts is an employer in Oswego, Illinois in Food and beverage retailers. Federal records hold 2 OSHA inspections and 34 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases.
OSHA opened 2 inspections at Dunkin' Donuts sites in Illinois since 2016, issuing 0 citations. Current penalties total $0, $0 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 34 compliance actions involving Dunkin' Donuts, recording $1,019,768 in back wages agreed to pay for 527 employees and assessing $33,315 in civil money penalties, under the Fair Labor Standards Act and FLSA child labor provisions.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 445 | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $3,217 | $5,775 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 4% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 61% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 27 Jan 2022 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
No Form 300A summary for this employer in Illinois is in the Injury Tracking Application data for 2023, 2024, 2025. Only establishments in covered industries with 20 or more employees (100 or more in some industries) must submit.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 445 | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $30K | $7,307 | $12K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 15.5 | — | 13.5 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $1,935 | — | $910 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 559 | $1,018,528 |
| FLSA child labor provisions | 1 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2024 – 13 Nov 2024 | 3 | $0 | 0 | $9,621 | Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA child labor provisions | Concluded |
| 6 Oct 2022 – 5 Oct 2024 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 17 Aug 2022 – 16 Aug 2024 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 25 Jan 2020 – 24 Jan 2022 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 1 Nov 2018 – 31 Oct 2020 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 17 Sep 2018 – 11 Sep 2020 | 5 | $6,253 | 3 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 6 Dec 2017 – 5 Dec 2019 | 14 | $1,739 | 13 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 31 Oct 2017 – 29 Jun 2018 | 2 | $44 | 1 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 31 Dec 2014 – 31 Dec 2016 | 13 | $2,001 | 12 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 6 Mar 2014 – 5 Mar 2016 | 5 | $17,309 | 5 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 15 Aug 2011 – 31 Aug 2012 | 5 | $4,872 | 4 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 24 Mar 2010 – 23 Mar 2012 | 1 | $35 | 1 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 24 Mar 2010 – 23 Mar 2012 | 2 | $932 | 2 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 1 Oct 2010 – 17 Nov 2011 | 13 | $2,454 | 12 | $2,244 | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 15 Sep 2009 – 14 Sep 2011 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 30 Sep 2008 – 30 Sep 2010 | 8 | $31,003 | 6 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 23 May 2008 – 22 May 2010 | 9 | $1,136 | 6 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 23 May 2008 – 22 May 2010 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 23 May 2008 – 22 May 2010 | 5 | $602 | 4 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 23 May 2008 – 22 May 2010 | 4 | $567 | 3 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
Most recent 20 of 34 cases. Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1998833, 1997671, 1996226, 1957673, 1922591, ….
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
No labor condition application from this employer in Illinois appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Dunkin' Donuts?
Yes. OSHA records 2 inspections at Dunkin' Donuts sites in Illinois since 2016, most recently opened 19 Dec 2024.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Dunkin' Donuts?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $1,019,768 in back wages agreed to pay across 34 cases, for 527 employees.
Does Dunkin' Donuts sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Dunkin' Donuts in Illinois appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does Dunkin' Donuts sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Dunkin' Donuts hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Dunkin' Donuts?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.