I quit McDonalds some time ago. Here's another reason why you should, too

[CatWoman]

McScrooges: McDonalds Wants Employees to Work On Christmas With No Overtime Pay

According to a leaked internal memo, McDonalds is urging its franchisees to stay open on Christmas Day without paying employees overtime.

Ad Age has obtained an internal memo from McDonald’s USA Chief Operating Officer Jim Johannesen pushing franchise owners to stay open on Christmas, “Starting with Thanksgiving, ensure your restaurants are open throughout the holidays. Our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day. Last year, [company-operated] restaurants that opened on Christmas averaged $5,500 in sales.” In a December 12 Memo, the COO upped the ante, and projected that stores that opened on Christmas would do $6,000 in sales.

By opening on Christmas the franchise owner makes money, the corporation makes money that will help them reverse their first sales decline in nine years, but what do the workers get in exchange for giving up Christmas with their families?

Certainly, not overtime pay.

When Ad Age asked McDonald’s spokeswoman Heather Oldani if employees get overtime pay, she answered, “When our company-owned restaurants are open on the holidays, the staff voluntarily sign up to work. There is no regular overtime pay.”

The holiday is “voluntary,” but anyone who has worked in any non-union environment understands what voluntary really means in this context. The franchise owners who want to open on Christmas Day will make it very clear to everyone what will happen both for those who sign up for work, and those who don’t.

http://www.politicususa.com/mcscrooges-mcdonalds-employees-work-christmas-overtime-pay.html

[Cha]

1. McScrooge is Right.. What, they don't have enough money

in their coffers to pay extra on Christmas?

So, the mickeyD employees are the ones with the Generosity on Christmas?

I quit them in the '70s for health reasons.

Cat

[AlexSatan]

2. My son liked working Xmas/Thanksgiving

It was usually pretty slow and we don't make a big deal of that specific day. Sure, he would have appreciated OT, but he didn't mind working without it--relatively speaking of course. He left it as soon as he was offered a higher paying internship in his field of study.

[leftyohiolib]

3. well if no one goes to mcd's they wont do it next year

[WCGreen]

4. I worked at a gas station on Christmas Eve and NYE

[joeybee12]

5. There are sooooooooo many reasons...

Just shows they're assholes for doing this.

[part man all 86]

6. Here in Sevierville Tennessee, mcscooged has told its employees that their hours are cut.

Why? Because Obama won and mcscrooged owner will not cough up money for health care. He is an evil owner and I refuse to eat there for many reasons, even if someone else is buying. Fast food owners put on a charlatan face as they tell you that they supply the uniforms, one week vacation pay and a raise of a nickle or dime once a year and act like they are doing you a favor. Too many years working for pizza hut, dominoes, oliverio's, arby's, wendy's, papa johns, spinnakers, sub station II and tgif. I love it when the boss come over and ask me to do something off the clock or ask me to stay and work a double because someone did not show up, nothing like it as they sacrifice me to their money deity. Food at mcscrooged is terrible and you pay for what you get, cardboard on cardboard. Starting my second decade of not eating there. I prefer can dog food over mcscrooged even if it is not true mcscrooged has been on my boycott list for awhile but not like hick wil kila *(chic fil a) which now in my 27th year of not eating there.
Most fast food really watch your time card as you approach 40 hours and I have been clocked out when 40 hours have been reached as finished my work off the clock(arby's). This places have no morals or ethnics so why eat there? Because it's convenient.

[xfundy]

10. I've been to Sevierville.

Right outside of Knoxvegas. Used to go there a bit for work.

But McD and all the other assholes are destroying peoples' lives while makin a hell of a lot more than the people who actually assemble the product, and the workers get jack-shit and are expendable. Hire. Sqeeeeze. Repeat. Leave them aside to die, who cares about workers?

Fuck them all.

[slackmaster]

7. Getting food poisoning there three times in six months did it for me

It's been about 20 years now.

[craigmatic]

8. They did the same thing on Thanksgiving.

[RebelOne]

9. Never eat there anyway.

I do not like fast food, plus I am a vegetarian and they have nothing I would want to eat.

[Tikki]

11. I quit most fast food years ago when I started to get McHeartburn...

from eating at those places...


Tikki

[GObamaGO]

12. Franchises are independently owned

[NYC_SKP]

13. Yes, that's correct, they are.

And they answer to a corporate overlord.

If you want to impact that overlord, you attack the franchisee.