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Orrex

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5. Ages ago I worked at a Hardee's

Reply to Segami (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:51 AM

Apr 2014

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.

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McDonald�s Managers Ordered To CHEAT Employees Out Of Pay [View all] Segami Apr 2014 OP

Is McDonald's a franchise? joeglow3 Apr 2014 #1

" 100% of current franchisees are owner/operators" Segami Apr 2014 #2

I wonder if this was mcdonalds or a shitty franchisee joeglow3 Apr 2014 #4

It would seem, this is NOT an isolated event... Segami Apr 2014 #7

I don't eat at McFeces.... Uben Apr 2014 #3

Ages ago I worked at a Hardee's Orrex Apr 2014 #5

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