Shake Shack will pay out nearly $250,000 for Massachusetts child labor law violations, Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced Tuesday.

“Our child labor laws protect vulnerable young people as they embark on jobs to learn skills, give back to their communities, and earn their own money,” Campbell said Tuesday. “I appreciate Shake Shack’s willingness to work with my office to remediate these issues, and I am grateful that they will make a significant payment towards improving youth employment opportunities in the Commonwealth.”

The AG’s investigation found Shake Shack “failed to obtain valid work permits prior to employing minors and scheduled minors for work during legally prohibited hours and in excess of the state’s 48 hour per week limit,” violating state child labor laws. The violations included over 200 employees between January 2022 and December 2022, the AG said.

The restaurant chain will pay $122,250 in penalties and a $122,250 payment to a state fund used for enforcement and education of state employment laws.

State officials were initially tipped off to the violations via a complaint alleging minors at a Shake Shack in Woburn were being required to work past what they were legally allowed to work, the office said.

The AG’s office launched an investigation, discovering additional violations in twelve Shake Shack locations in Chestnut Hill, Cambridge, Dedham, Watertown, Woburn, Somerville, Burlington, Hingham, Everett, Andover, and Boston.

The company “fully cooperated with the AGO’s investigation and has taken steps to come into compliance with the law,” the AG said.

However, this is not the first time Shake Shack was found out of compliance with child labor laws in recent years. In 2019, the AG’s office said, the restaurant chain similarly settled a case with the state relating to child labor violations, including “failure to obtain youth work permits and employment of minors during legally prohibited hours.”

Shake Shack agreed to pay $90,000 in penalties in the 2019 case, the AG said.

Staff with the AGO’s Fair Labor Division handled the Shake Shack case. The AG noted $4 million in child-labor-related restitutions and penalties secured by the AGO’s Fair Labor Division during her administration at the Healthy Summer Youth Jobs Program over the summer.

Massachusetts child labor laws include limitations on minor’s hour and job types and require all employers to obtain Youth Employment Permits for workers under 18 years old. More information on Massachusetts child labor laws and permits can be found on mass.gov/dols/youth.

Workers can find more information on workplace rights at mass.gov/ago/fairlabor or through the AGO’s Fair Labor Hotline and report violations at mass.gov/ago/fld.