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Omaha Steve

(99,708 posts)
Sun May 19, 2013, 01:01 PM May 2013

To the CEOs of McDonald's, Domino's, Papa John's, Yum! Brands, Wendy's and Burger King: (please sign





http://action.fastfoodforward.org/page/s/wage-theft/?utm_source=FFF-WT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FFF&subsource=email-FFF-WT



Fast food companies steal from employees

Fast food companies are a $200 billion dollar a year industry. But obscene profit earned by paying workers poverty wages just isn't enough for them – they also steal money from employee pockets by bouncing paychecks, forcing staff to work unpaid and off the clock, and illegally deducting money for things like uniforms and trainings. This isn't some occasional incident – it's common practice. 84% of fast food employees surveyed have been stolen from in the last year. It's outrageous and must stop. Sign our petition to the worst offenders.


Petition: To the CEOs of McDonald's, Domino's, Papa John's, Yum! Brands, Wendy's and Burger King:

Where does your greed and exploitation of workers end? It's bad enough that you pay your employees – many of whom are adults with children – $7.25 an hour. But you also STEAL from them? You should be ashamed.

It's time for fast food companies like yours to do the right thing. You can start by paying the men and women you employ enough to support their families. And then stop stealing from them. Stop bouncing paychecks. Stop forcing staff to work unpaid and off the clock. And stop illegally deducting money for things like uniforms and trainings.

Stop preying on your most vulnerable workers and help get the economy moving again.

Sign here: http://action.fastfoodforward.org/page/s/wage-theft/?utm_source=FFF-WT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FFF&subsource=email-FFF-WT

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To the CEOs of McDonald's, Domino's, Papa John's, Yum! Brands, Wendy's and Burger King: (please sign (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2013 OP
Question... greytdemocrat May 2013 #1
looks like that is fro the website. And making the help rurallib May 2013 #2
After one of the five one day fast food strikes in the last month... Omaha Steve May 2013 #3
That's exactly why it's illegal where I am laundry_queen May 2013 #4
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Well crap, what happened to math skills? Quantess May 2013 #5

rurallib

(62,448 posts)
2. looks like that is fro the website. And making the help
Sun May 19, 2013, 01:18 PM
May 2013

make up shortages can be another way to steal from them.

Omaha Steve

(99,708 posts)
3. After one of the five one day fast food strikes in the last month...
Sun May 19, 2013, 01:40 PM
May 2013

A manager was fired for making employees wear degrading signs around their necks. Signs like I'm a slacker, I don't work hard, etc. I won't have time to look it up until Tuesday. (Somebody remind me)

Also many cashiers aren't allowed to count the drawer they start with, but are charged for a shortage if one occurs. So if the drawer is short $5 to start, the cashier pays.

OS

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
4. That's exactly why it's illegal where I am
Sun May 19, 2013, 02:17 PM
May 2013

to make the cashier pay out of pocket for shortages. Just like they aren't allowed to keep overages (is that a word? mental block...) either. It could always have been someone else who used the cash first. We WERE supposed to count cash before we switched off, but it's so easy to falsify them, especially if your manager wasn't really paying attention while you were counting. So, it was totally illegal, and it should be. Occasional shortages or overages are part of the cost of doing business. Obviously if there is a pattern of a particular cashier consistently having big shortages, then it becomes worrisome (also worrisome, ironically, is a cashier who is NEVER off, not even by a penny). Then the company can investigate. But to require each cashier to cover shortages that they may or may not be responsible for (and then not give them the overages) is totally unethical.

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