(A case that may decide whether McDonald’s is a joint employer of its franchisee staff is currently before the National Labor Relations Board.) In the coming months, he said, the company will be rolling out training for front-line employees, and a complaint hotline. Last September, hundreds of McDonald’s workers walked off the job during the lunch rush, protesting what they said was pervasive sexual harassment in the company’s restaurants. claims present, took place on Tuesday afternoon, in front of McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago, two days before the company’s annual shareholder meeting. In 2012, for example, it secured a $1 million settlement from a McDonald’s franchise owner in Wisconsin that it had sued over sexual harassment.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2019 09:00 UTC