Judge says McDonald's must give employee emails to U.S. labor board

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A U.S. judge on Friday gave McDonald's Corp 30 days to hand over thousands of employee emails to a federal labor agency that says the company should be held liable for labor violations by franchisees.

At a hearing Friday morning, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan accused the company of "playing games" in order to avoid complying with a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board seeking documents from workers who deal directly with franchisees, which the company says would be irrelevant and costly.

"You're not even close to proving that the burden on McDonald's would outweigh the relevance" of the documents, McMahon told the company's lawyers.

The NLRB says McDonald's is a "joint employer" of franchise workers because of the control it exerts over them through guidelines imposed on franchisees.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/30/us-mcdonalds-labor-idUSKCN0SO2I420151030

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US | Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:36pm EDT
NEW YORK | BY DANIEL WIESSNER

[jtuck004]

1. Look on the bright side. When you deliver the docs, you can now get breakfast any time of the day,

at McDonald's.

[47of74]

2. Mickey D's has defiently gone down the shitter

It just occurred to me the other day just how far down the tubes the company has gone. I was thinking about how the sandwiches tasted when I was growing up and how much juicier and tastier they were. The Big Mac I had the other day the patties were dry and seemed more like cardboard than actual meat. It doesn't surprise me that some franchisees are thinking this might be the end of the company.

[appal_jack]

3. Wow, I thought they were gross in the 1970's.

I stopped eating there of my own accord some time around the age of 5 or 6.

I can't imagine what 'down the tubes' from there would be like...



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