McDonald’s Managers Ordered To CHEAT Employees Out Of Pay

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Send these 'McPricks' a message....Stop buying their product!......




McDonald’s is certainly no stranger when it comes to being colossal McPricks. In fact, they’re pretty gangsta about it. We’re already aware of their notorious website and the not so hallmark-y advice McDonald’s has to offer its low-wage employees. But one former McDonald’s managers’ candid video, which features her explaining how corporate would force her to cheat employees out of pay to reduce labor costs, should compel anyone to unquestionably stop “Lovin’ it.”

Former McDonald’s Manager discusses adjusting employee hours and other ‘creative accounting’ ways to cheat employees.

“Oh, we’ve got to adjust labor” is what Kwanza Brooks, a former McDonald’s manager with 10 years of experience working at 12 locations, says a manager told her once as she was finishing up a shift.

It seems that Brooks joined forces with Lakia Williams, another ex-McDonald’s manager, in shedding light on the utterly abysmal labor practices of McDonald’s former employer in the above video. The video was put together by Low Pay Is Not OK. Both Brooks and Williams speak calmly and matter-of-factly about the anti-labor practices of McDonald’s, echoing the same concerns in the class action lawsuits brought against McDonald’s in California, Michigan, and New York earlier this month.

Here’s what one of the attorney’s representing the McDonald’s employees in the class action suit had to say:

“It’s our understanding that both the managers and McDonald’s monitor what percentage of overall sales go to labor at any point in time, ”B.J. Chrisholm, one of the attorneys representing workers in the California case, told me the day the lawsuits were announced. “It’s really the sort of obsession with keeping that labor number low that results in a lot of the practices that we’re seeing in the restaurants.” (Takepart.com)

The candor from Brooks and Williams is yet another reminder how the one percent have hijacked the middle and lower classes. The sheer gall of McDonald’s and their hatred of their own employees makes Ronald McDonald look less like a friendly clown and more like the Wolf of Wall Street.



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/04/02/mcdonalds-stealing-workers/

[joeglow3]

1. Is McDonald's a franchise?

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2. " 100% of current franchisees are owner/operators"

Startup Costs, Ongoing Fees and Financing

Total Investment: $1,031,350 - $2,182,050

Franchise Fee: $45,000

Term of Franchise Agreement: 20 years, renewable

FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS

Liquid Cash Available: $750,000

OPERATIONS

88% of all franchisees own more than one unit. Absentee ownership of franchise is NOT allowed. (100% of current franchisees are owner/operators).


Franchise Units

YEAR - U.S. - CANADIAN - INTERNATIONAL - COMPANY OWNED

2014 - 12,739 - 1,172 - 14,780 - 6,738

2013 - 12,678 - 1,114 - 14,459 - 6,642

2012 - 12,605 - 1,152 - 14,125 - 6,598

2011 - 12,546 - 1,125 - 13,407 - 6,439

2010 - 12,477 - 1,097 - 12,764 - 6,399



http://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/mcdonalds/282570-0.html

[joeglow3]

4. I wonder if this was mcdonalds or a shitty franchisee

If it was mcdonalds, you would think there is at least one honest franchisee who would come forward.

[Segami]

7. It would seem, this is NOT an isolated event...

"...Both Brooks and Williams speak calmly and matter-of-factly about the anti-labor practices of McDonald’s, echoing the same concerns in the class action lawsuits brought against McDonald’s in California, Michigan, and New York earlier this month..."

[Uben]

3. I don't eat at McFeces....

...talk to an employee of one of these places. You'll never eat there again!

[Orrex]

5. Ages ago I worked at a Hardee's

The four-unit franchise owners routinely cooked the books to the detriment of the workers. A favorite trick was to work them 48 or 52 hours the first week of the pay cycle and then short their hours by 8 or 12 hours the next week so that the weeks would "average out" to omit overtime pay.

They would also routinely "bend" child labor rules, working 14 and 15 year old eight or nine hours on school nights.


Great stuff. I'm sure that this goes on all the time, sadly.

[seveneyes]

6. But shareholders won't buy new yachts every year

They MUST trim the payrolls to avoid such calamities.

[yuiyoshida]

8. This really sucks

I never worked at a McDonalds but worked at a Movie Theater that found ways to cheat their employees. I finally quit working there. By the way, I don't eat at Micky Dee's and I never will.

[Lizzie Poppet]

9. When you're hungry, get food. Real, actual FOOD.

Both the working class and your body will thank you. Ronald McDonald can fuck off.