sex-and-relationshipsUpdated: Apr 14, 2020 15:06 ISTMcDonald’s Corp has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of subjecting female employees in its corporate-owned fast-food restaurants in Florida to widespread sexual harassment. The plaintiffs, current McDonald’s employee Jamelia Fairley and former employee Ashley Reddick, are seeking to represent a class of female employees of Florida’s more than 100 corporate-owned, non-franchise McDonald’s locations. Fairley and Reddick said in their complaint that McDonald’s failed to provide training to prevent sexual harassment and shuffled serial harassers from one location to another without consequence. Reddick worked at a Sanford, Florida, McDonald’s restaurant from 2015 until 2018, when she was fired for reporting unwanted sexual comments and touching by a male coworker, the complaint said. Sexual harassment allegations have plagued McDonald’s since 2016, when it first faced a wave of complaints filed with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission.

Source: Hindustan Times April 14, 2020 09:34 UTC