In Reply to: If it makes money it can justify wholesale corruption posted by Ben on June 10, 1996 at 19:09:17:
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: My name is Ben, and I worked for McDonald's for two and a half years
: from October 1993 to February 1996. What I experienced there was a
: company typical of the American corporate ideology that if it makes money
: you can justify wholesale corruption. I initially worked in a franchise
: store at in Birmingham owned by a S*** R****.: His rates of pay were lower than even the McDonald's company standard which meant that
: his 16 year old employees were being paid between 2.35 and 2.65 per hour.
: He also deducts money from people's wages for cash discrepancies on
: tills, which he usually did without without providing notification or
: statig it on terms of employment at the orientation.This is illegal. Anyone who has had this happen should take this up
with the Industrial Tribunal:This practice later
: changed and it was made legal, howevera large number of ex-employees
: would be able to testify that he did it while he was breaking the law
: (wages act).Then they should drag him through the Tribunal and get their money back.
Failing that, sue him in the small claims court. Either way, my guess is
that he'd cave in rather than losing his franchise.: Because of his policy on spending as little as possible on cleaning
: supplies there were rarely any clean cloths or other materials, and we
: often used externally purchased chemicals without filling out a risk
: assesment form which is against COSHH regulations.No its not. Only those chemicals identified under CHIPS regs
need to have a risk assessment and then, the CHIPS data has
to be supplied by the chemical supplier. Not all chemicals
are CHIPs registered yet. Those which tend not to be are the
least dangerous, ie anionic cleaning agents such as sprays
used for cleaning worktops of floor cleaners. (CHIPS is the
Chemical Hazard Information and Packaging regs 1993). Any
cleaner that is volatile solvent based or caustic should
have CHIPs data and that are 'water and soap' based won't.
Even at that, a COSHH risk assesment requires only that you
identify the risk, the people who may be at risk, inform them
of that risk and supply safety clothing and training suitable
for dealing with that risk. This last bit is open to
interpretation. If you are CERTAIN that they are breaching
COSHH regulations (I can't envisage what sort of chemicals McDs
would have that do that) then you should report it to the
Health and Safety Executive who have powers to enforce a
closure notice on somewhere that is engaging in dangerous
practises.: Food was always overheld from cooked food to raw items. If a
: product ran out of date it was still used. This applied to the salads
: which he claimed were "tossed fresh every day" therby breaching the
: trade descriptions act,I doubt it. "Tossed fresh' is the key phrase. Whether it is old crap
or not isn't relavent to the claim, as long as the give it a quick turn
day, that's enough to satisfy the claim. The fact that the lettuce
their 'tossing freshly' every day has had a tossing the
previous 5 days and was seriously wilted is irrelevant!.: always being open. His opinion was that crew did not deserve this luxury
: besides it also put up the heating bills, so he removed the fuse. Upon
: discovering this I put the fuse back and wrote a damning note explaining
: the implications of such an act on health and safety law,It's not a breach of health and safety law, its a breach of the factories
act, but you'd have to record the average temperature and show it was
below the legal minimum over a certain period of time
: I eventually left after a sexual harassment claim was alledgedly filed by
: my ex-girlfriend, which turned out to be a complete lie.Then you should have challenged it under the UKs sex discrimination and
claimed Constructive Dismissal at the Tribunal. You'd be surprised
at how helpful they can be and how much insight they have when it comes
to cases of constructive dismissal which, if what you claim is true, is
precisely what this is.
None.