The owners of seven Dunkin' locations in Somerset, Fall River and Dartmouth have been issued four citations totaling $150,000 for failing to obtain valid work permits, employing minors, after 8pm without adult supervision, having 16 and 17-year-olds work over nine hours a day, and the employment of minors before 6am, according to the Massachusetts A-Gs office. 

NBC 10 in Boston is reporting that Somerset Donuts Express and a suburban Boston Dunkin Ownership Group combined for over $350,000 for fines for numerous Massachusetts Child Labor Violations. 

Since January of 2022, The A-Gs office says it issued 32 citations against the owners of several Dunkin Franchises.