This is the fifth time since 2018 that McDonald’s workers have struck the company over what they say are inadequate efforts to stop sexual harassment in its stores. At least 50 workers have filed charges against McDonald’s alleging verbal and physical harassment over the last five years. In April, McDonald’s announced it would require sexual harassment training, reporting procedures for complaints and annual employee surveys at its 40,000 stores worldwide starting in January 2022. The latest labor action was spurred by a lawsuit filed last month by a teenage McDonald’s employee and her parents against McDonald’s and one of its franchisees. “We have fully cooperated with the police and have offered our full support to the impacted employee,” Rice said in the statement.

Source: ABC News October 27, 2021 06:34 UTC