More than 100 McDonald’s staff, including some as young as 17, have said they were subjected to sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism and bullying.
Some as young as 17 are being groped and harassed on a regular basis while being told to just ‘ignore’ perpetrators by managers, aJournalists spent five months speaking to current and former employees and heard 31 allegations of sexual assault, 78 of sexual harassment, 18 of racism and six of homophobia.She said older male colleagues would ‘grope the stomachs, waists and bums’ of junior female staff and use the small kitchen space as an excuse.
McDonald’s has since said it is ‘deeply sorry’ to hear about what happened and stressed it is now investigating her complaints which were not formally escalated at the time.Shelby was 16 when she began working at a McDonald’s restaurant in Berkshire He wrote to the franchise, corporate headquarters and the police before the man was eventually fired.
A former Plymouth worker said a senior manager choked her and groped her bum. She also claims to have received explicit images from a shift manager. Other behaviours which were inappropriate or against company policy, as opposed to being illegal, were exposed as well.
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