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is a living wage too much to ask for
welcome to watchmojo.com ight want to
think twice about do the reports of pay
disputes health violations or worse
McDonald's employees protesting for
higher wages but the fast-food giant is
still standing its ground number ten
McDonald's it may be the biggest
fast-food chain on the planet but
McDonald's has been in the news many
times for wage violations and a string
of lawsuits brought against it by its
employees and new at five fast-food
workers hit the streets to fight what
they call wage theft in 2019
they settled one such lawsuit for 26
million dollars after violating
California labor laws by not paying
overtime that same year female employees
filed gender discrimination complaints
according to the ex employees when they
raised complaints within the company
their work hours were slashed so much
they couldn't afford their rent similar
wage theft lawsuits were settled in New
Zealand while in the UK workers have
gone on strike to try and force
McDonald's to raise wages and pay taxes
at the moment they're on poverty wages
like so many workers in this couldn't
shake now McDonald's makes a vast amount
of money and they make that huge amounts
of profit of the hard graft and labor of
those workers behind me number nine
subway eat fresh yeah maybe not
employees have said that some stores
only get to sometimes just one shipment
of ingredients a week
so you could be eating vegetables that
have been sitting around for days
employees are aware of them not so fresh
food at hand but feel frustrated because
they can't do anything about it
an even bigger problem for employees
many franchises are reportedly
chronically understaffed
sometimes just two people work entire
shifts and extra long shifts in some
cases in addition store closures are
happening at an alarming rate
making employment less secure scandal at
Subway you may have heard about this one
it turns out some of their famous
footlong sandwiches have been coming in
a bit short
number 8 Taco Bell
that's my notch or it's never gonna be
as good as home-cooked Mexican food but
this doesn't mean Taco Bell doesn't have
extremely high standards for its
employees it's frequently been called
the hardest fast-food chain to work for
because of the precision in preparing
every individual item so that they
always look identical Taco Bell's
commitment to this is so extreme that
everything has to be weighed and if your
soft taco is point three ounces more or
less than what it's supposed to be it
reportedly sometimes gets thrown out and
you have to make it again when it comes
to fast food no one whips up a taco
faster than Taco Bell we can actually
make a taco in less than seven seconds
and while they may have fewer lawsuits
than most chains in 2016 they had to pay
$500,000 to employees for unpaid lunch
breaks number 7 sonic how do they make
these tell me unless it sells after
getting slammed with numerous wage theft
lawsuits in 2017
sonic signed an agreement with the US
Department of Labor to improve its
compliance with federal law
unfortunately Sonic made the headlines
again in early 2019 when all employees
at three of its locations in Ohio quit
simultaneously this happened when new
management allegedly decided to slash
wages from Ohio's 855 and our minimum
wage to four dollars plus tips despite
the fact that fast-food workers rarely
if ever get tipped the ex employees left
signs in the windows explaining their
situation to customers and walked though
Sonic denied the accusation well wait a
minute no just tell me it sells but have
it be the truth never mind
is it magical house number six Jimmy
John's in 2011 six Jimmy John's
employees were fired after making and
distributing some memes showing two
identical sandwiches claiming one was
made by a sick worker and one was made
by a healthy worker they highlighted the
fact that workers don't get paid sick
days so they are often forced to work
when ill which can put customers health
at risk this was initially upheld as an
unlawful firing because making sick
people work meant the chain was selling
unsafe food unfortunately in 2017 the
decision was reversed this
the only thing Jimmy John's has gotten
publicity for however locations across
the u.s. have been sued for wage theft
in 2014 and 2015 number five Popeyes in
August 2009 teen Popeyes launched its
fried chicken sandwich hind' chaos
ensued across the US when people
couldn't resist the temptation I've been
trying to make the perfect chicken
sandwich friend how does that make you
feel
but the craze was bad news for employees
of the restaurant who found it hard to
cope with demand and angry customers
when they ran out of the ingredients one
viral video showed an eight-year-old boy
handling raw chicken at the location his
dad worked at which was incredibly
short-staffed because of the sandwich
rush his father was later fired it's a
kid in the kitchen and he's involved in
the preparation of that insanely popular
popeyes chicken sandwich he appears to
be about eight years old and can't be
more than four feet tall there was even
a fatal stabbing at a Popeye's in
Maryland after someone cut in line which
doesn't make employees want to work
there number four Wendy's when the Fair
Food Program an agreement specifically
designed to protect the rights of tomato
growers in Florida was introduced in
2011
Wendy's was the only fast-food giant
that refused to get on board have you
ever wondered how your Tomatoes get to
the grocery store or given much thought
to the people who pick them Wendy's
decided to outsource its fruit suppliers
to Mexico where workers are subject to
lower pay and often abuse Wendy's
refuses to roll over and source its
tomatoes from the US which has led to
numerous protests as well as campaigns
to boycott the chain entirely this will
continue in various Wendy's throughout
the region
definitely not over dozens of people
outside a Fort Myers Wendy's today
protesting asking the National fast food
chain to join the Fair Food Program the
outsource laborers may not be directly
paid by Wendy's but they are working for
them nonetheless number three Arby's
they might be famous for their roast
beef but you might get more meat than
you bargained for at Arby's in the
summertime when the weather is hot you
can step right up and get a sandwich
that's God there have been at least two
separate instances of human fingers
being found in the food there one in
2004 and another in 2012 well you may
want to leave the room if you're getting
ready for a late-night snack Arby's is
apologizing to a Jackson teenager after
he found something unexpected in his
roast beef sandwich a piece of a finger
a teenage boy made the grim discovery in
his Junior roast beef sandwich and it
was ultimately determined that this
finger belonged to an employee of the
chain who'd cut the tip of their finger
off on a meat slicer in 2004 a manager
cut their finger off while slicing
lettuce well here's a story that might
take away your appetite a michigan teen
was finishing his Arby's roast beef
sandwich when he bit down on something
that seemed rubbery he spit it out only
to discover it was the tip of a finger
losing a body part for work definitely
not worth it
number two Burger King New Zealand
branches of Burger King have seen some
particularly stringent policies come
their way including employees allegedly
being encouraged to work unpaid overtime
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this was in 2019 after the company had
already been banned from hiring migrant
workers in New Zealand for a year
because they weren't paying the minimum
wage in 2015 American Burger King
workers staged protests to get a $15
minimum wage while co-founder David
Edgerton claimed that this would mean
the company's dollar menu wouldn't be
sustainable and in 2014 in Canada an
employee of 24 years Lucia ROM was fired
for taking home a meal with permission
from the manager she won $35,000 us and
damages due to wrongful termination a
Canadian judge has awarded a former
Burger King employee a whopping 46,000
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jr. in 2017 Carl's jr. was fined one
point four five million dollars by the
city of Los Angeles for not paying its
workers the minimum wage the company
claimed this was simply down to a
payroll error but they were also fined
for refusing to let investigators speak
to employees and refusing to inform
workers of their rights the CEO Andy
pester was Donald Trump's nominee for US
labor secretary at the time and the
controversy around the fine was so
severe that he had to step down mr.
Trump also announced fast-food executive
Andrew puzzler as his pick for Secretary
of Labor
puzzlers company owns Hardee's and
Carl's jr. best known for these racy ads
grass
on top of this the company has been
flagged for having sexist commercials
and for being generally opposed to
organization and labor activism and then
it seemed to like the ads but it was
deemed sexist demeaning to women you say
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