Mc Donald Workers in Rome are going to strike, to protest against structural deficies of their working enviroments.
There isn’t a good and proper air conditioning system, infact, during this heat wave, the spaces in the selling areas of the restaurants are unlivable.
In the kitchens, where tools and machinery, reach extremely high temperatures, the temperature exceeded 40 °C.
It’s impossible and unbearable to work in this conditions.
In the most important Mc Donald of Rome, such as : Via Nazionale, Corso Francia, Pantheon, workers are taking industrial actions, and they are ready to carry on their protest in the case restoration works, as promised by the company, necessary to solve the problem are not going to be done.

From FILCAMS-Cgil web site: http://www.filcams.cgil.it

According to the Haaretz newspaper , the Tel Aviv Labor Court has fined Alonial LTD – the company that operates the McDonalds fast food chain in Israel – NIS 30 thousand for employing minors on their weekly day of rest, in violation of the law.

For the full story, visit http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=mcdonalds&itemNo=1157390

According to the Wall Street Journal, McDonald’s Corp.’s German unit is engaged in a dispute with several franchise holders who accuse the world’s largest hamburger chain of using aggressive tactics to try to force them out of their contracts.

Court records show McDonald’s hired a team of private detectives to dig up evidence of conflicts of interest against one of the franchisees.

In other instances, at least five franchisees say, McDonald’s offered corporate jobs to franchise employees in exchange for information needed to terminate franchise holders’ contracts or ordered its personnel auditors to collect evidence against them.

To see the full Wall Street Journal article go to:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704675104575000842942986002.html

A Dutch branch of McDonald’s was wrong to fire a worker for giving a
colleague an extra piece of cheese on a hamburger, a court ruled on Tuesday

“The dismissal was too severe a measure,” the district court in
Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands said in a written judgment.

A written warning would have been a more appropriate punishment, said
the court, which ordered McDonald’s to pay the worker the salary for
the remaining five months of her contract — a total of 4,265.47 euros
(6,006.69 dollars).

The worker was fired at a McDonald’s branch in the northern town of
Lemmer in March last year for giving a colleague on a break a more
expensive cheese burger instead of the hamburger she had paid for.

McDonald’s maintained she had broken the rules, which prohibit any
free gifts to family, friends or colleagues.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100126/tod-mcdonald-s-in-a-pickle-over-cheese-s-7f81b96.html?printer=1

According to the Mirror newspaper, Mcdonald’s plans to hire another 5,000 UK workers. The recruitment drive comes after the fast-food chain took on an extra 6,000 employees last year.

Workers are needed for up to 15 new outlets. This will increase the UK workforce to  85,000. Steve Easterbrook, the chain’s UK boss, said: “We hire a lot of school leavers, graduates, and unemployed people, so these jobs are often an important step on the career ladder.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/23/mcjobs-on-offer-after-sales-boom-115875-21988917/

According to the Weser-Kurier  newspaper, McDonald’s plans to expand it’s business in Germany this year, creating 2000 new jobs. This employment growth will be as a result of new restaurant openings. In 2009, the company employed a record 60,000 workers, which was up from 58,000 the previous year.

According to a report on th BBC website, a Florida teenager who changed her gender from male to female six years ago is taking legal action against McDonald’s for alleged discrimination.

Zikerria Bellamy, 17, alleges managers at the Orlando branch twice refused to hire her because she is transgender.

She also claims an obscene message stating she would never be hired by the company was left on her voicemail.

The branch concerned has said it has a zero tolerance policy towards any form of discrimination.

For the full story visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8401568.stm

According to the Citizenside website, undocumented McDonald’s workers   are currently occupying the premises of a restaurant in Paris to apply for regularization

They claim that occupying the premises will make customers aware of the plight of undocumented migrants. Usually, these workers are “invisible” since cleaners work at the restaurant during  closing hours between midnight and seven o’clock in the morning. “For a week, undocumented employees McDonald’s at the corner of Soufflot and Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris  have been occupying the premises to apply for regularization” says a Paris Citizenside contributor.They believe that even if the restaurant uses an outside company for cleaning (outsourcing) is that McDonald’s is responsible for their jobs and thus their regulation. According to the strikers, the French economy survives through undocumented workers. It is therefore hypocritical to deny them social rights.

The conflict began last Monday (December 1). The occupation  is supported by the CGT, RESF, the Left Party, in Solidarity, the League of Human Rights and CFDT.  The Strikers  are occupying one of the dining rooms on the ground floor.