Involvement in organization Fast Food Forward led two previous McDonald's managers to come forward to state they reportedly kept money from employees, and also raise awareness about how they and other employees see the situation Bloomberg Businessweek reported Wednesday.
"There was so much pressure," Lakia Williams, who previously worked as an assistant manager at a McDonald's location in Charleston, S.C. told Bloomberg Businessweek. "It's not only the franchisees group and the general managers, it is corporate. It's something internal, it's something deeper, and it's something that has been going on for years."
Every McDonald's employee is entitled to receive the pay they agreed to when starting work at the company according to a company spokeswoman Bloomberg Businessweek reported.
"McDonald's and our independent owner-operators share a concern and commitment to the well-being and fair treatment of all people who work in McDonald's restaurants," Heather Oldani, a spokeswoman for McDonald's told Bloomberg Businessweek in an e-mail. "Whether employed by McDonald's or by our independent owner-operators, employees should be paid correctly."
"McDonald's and our owner-operators employ separately but in total over 750,000 workers in the United States, and we caution against drawing broad conclusions based on a small, random informal sampling," Oldani told Bloomberg Businessweek.
Lawyers feel the company and its franchisees should be one entity, and conjoin on legal responsibility, while McDonald's says it does not work with franchises, and believes it is not responsible for the actions of franchise owners actions since they operate by themselves The New York Times reported.
Cases in Michigan involved employees coming to work at the request of their bosses before being instructed to be on a one to two hour standby without receiving compensation until more people came to their restaurant location. The time was reportedly spent in parking lots of McDonald's locations.
McDonald's also had workers fund their uniforms, which decreased their $7.25 wage rate.
Three instances in California involve employees complaints that McDonald's did not compensate them for every hour on the job, slimmed down some hours off of workers compensation information, and did not allow time to eat and breaks they were entitled to The Times reported.
Cases in New York claim McDonald's did not pay back employees for cleansing uniforms.
