Posted on 03/13/2014 11:29:20 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp workers in three U.S. states filed lawsuits this week against the fast-food chain, alleging it is stealing wages by forcing them to work off the clock, by cheating them out of overtime and by denying them rest breaks.
The seven suits were announced on Thursday by the employees' lawyers and were filed Wednesday and Thursday in New York, California and Michigan.
McDonald's spokeswoman Heidi Barker Sa Shekhem said the company is reviewing the allegations in the suits.
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Walmart has been dealing with these charges for more than a decade now.
Typically when investigated it turns out the employees are too stupid to work the time clock correctly.
Whenever you see these charges you can tell that a union organizing drive is underway.
I would think the individual franchise owners would be on the hook for this, but deep pockets rule.
Abuse of the system and the rules is how unions are able to get a foothold anywhere.
Management who abuses the rules are the reason why we have heavy regulations and should be scorned by people everywhere.
Abuse of the system and the rules is how unions are able to get a foothold anywhere.
Management who abuses the rules are the reason why we have heavy regulations and should be scorned by people everywhere.
This is part of the shakedown of McDonalds to get them to pay 10.10/hr.
Same thing Wallmart went thru.
I doubt seriously that’s a corp wide phenomenon.
My guess is that McDonalds trains its managers well in this area. But it only takes one rogue manager or one rogue franchisee to screw up.
A company I worked for (not McDonalds) used to teach us that if you knowingly let ANY employee work without pay. That any third party could sue you, put that employee on the stand and ask them if they had ever worked without pay and if that employee answered honestly, you just lost the lawsuit.
With all of the cameras in a typical McDonald’s, one would think this would be an easy thing to prove or disprove.
I worked at Walmart for a spell back in the late 1990s, and my store absolutely did engage in this kind of stuff, especially forcing certain wage employees to work off the clock to complete tasks but avoid going over the 40 hour limit, which was a “coachable” offense.
I've heard McDonald's workers complain about some of them. You'd think McDonald's HQ would have a process to deal with complaints. Then again, they're McDonald's employees....the good ones can always go to another restaurant or grocery, with many of them paying better wages.
This is what political collusion looks like folks.
Obama’s starting his big push for minimum wage and overtime reform and suddenly there’s a big, splash and very much newsworthy (by MSM) standards against McDonalds for employee wage abuse.
No coincidence, that.
Left out “Lawsuit” in my above.
In leftist dogma, employers exploit their employees. So any employee who complains gets instant sympathy.
Absolutely. The media and the unions have their marching orders from above.
Environment, immigration, wages, GL/WTF, guns, education, etc etc etc. All part of the same pattern:
“The issue is never the real issue: the real issue is always The Revolution. The cause is never the real cause: the real cause is always the acquisition of power.”
[David Horowitz quoting an unknown radical leader instructing the “troops” during a campus takeover in the 60s]
back in 1984 or 85 i worked for a clothing store that would do this... i would be scheduled to work the floor by myself, and the only other scheduled employee was a cashier... once my shift ended, another sales person would come and relieve me, but then they had me go do the back to do "inventory," which included unpacking new shipments and logging them into the system... now, as a salesperson, this was one of my tasks, but i could not do it until someone else could take the floor--but they always only schedule one person on the floor (except for weekends)... so there was no way i could do it until the next sales person came on, which was when my shift ended... but then they still wanted me to do the inventory--AFTER i clocked out!
i said, "heck no..." either i am doing inventory on the clock, or i am going home... one night, i was scheduled to close... the cashier and i were closing down the store, hanging up clothes, clearing out dressing rooms, etc... as i was working away, i noticed that all the time cards were gone... i asked the cashier/asst. manager where the time cards were... i needed to punch out... she said the manager had punched them all out already when the store closed and took them with her... she punched out my timecard an hour before i was finished working... (it took about an hour to do all the closing duties)... i was livid!!! soon after, i heard other employees quit too because they got tired of not getting paid for all their time... the store was out of business within the year...
I suspect some of the comlaits are valid.
The not being paid to clean your own uniform is not a valid complaint.
Likely timed to coincide with Baraq’s new decree on overtime:
Should McDonald’s agree to raise their minimum wage and support a raise in the national minimum wage, watch these lawsuits dissipate.
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