{"id":100911,"date":"2020-10-30T03:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mcdonalds-slapped-with-second-discrimination-suit-by-black-franchisees\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:42:27","slug":"mcdonalds-slapped-with-second-discrimination-suit-by-black-franchisees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mcdonalds-slapped-with-second-discrimination-suit-by-black-franchisees\/","title":{"rendered":"#McDonald’s slapped with second discrimination suit by black franchisees"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#McDonald’s slapp<\/a>ed with second discrimination suit by black franchisees<\/strong>”
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\n McDonald\u2019s is under fire again for how it treats its black franchisees.<\/p>\n

A civil rights class-action lawsuit filed Thursday accused McDonald\u2019s of steering black franchisees into predominately black, inner-city or rural communities where they make less money than their white counterparts and have higher operating costs that include beefed up security.<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed in a Chicago federal court on Thursday evening, on the heels of a Sept. 1 suit by 52 black former franchisees who claim they made at least $700,000 less in annual revenues than the McDonald\u2019s national average between 2011 and 2016, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The complaint was filed by two brothers \u2014 James and Darrell Byrd \u2014 who have operated McDonald\u2019s restaurants in the Nashville area for 31 and 22 years respectively.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 company has dwindled\u00a0from 10 eateries to two underperforming restaurants while his brother had operated as many as four and now has just two as well.<\/p>\n

The class action is seeking as much $5 million per store in damages, lost profits and relief, according to the complaint, to ensure that such discriminatory\u00a0actions don\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

We have two who are willing to put their necks and livelihoods on the line, but we have dozens of owners coming to us, said the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyer, James Ferraro, during a press briefing.<\/p>\n

Some 50 out of 186 current black franchisees have had conversations with the law firm, according to Ferraro.<\/p>\n

Since the Sept. 1 complaint, McDonald\u2019s has been on a \u201cmassive public relations campaign\u201d according to Ferraro, offering black franchisees \u201cvarious enticements\u201d including rent relief, in exchange for promising not to sue McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Franchisees will have until next year to decide whether they want to be part of the class-action lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are under no illusion about what McDonald\u2019s will do,\u201d Ferraro said in a statement. \u201cThey will open the checkbook to the remaining black operators and demand they not join the class. They\u2019ll put the screws to them and force some of them to go public saying \u2018all is well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s didn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely respond to requests for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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