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Judge says McDonald's must give employee emails to U.S. labor board
Originally posted at LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141247080
Source: Reuters
US | Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:36pm EDT
Judge says McDonald's must give employee emails to U.S. labor board
NEW YORK | BY DANIEL WIESSNER
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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Judge says McDonald's must give employee emails to U.S. labor board
NEW YORK | BY DANIEL WIESSNER
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
