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“#McDonald’s to mandate anti-harassment training worldwide<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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McDonald\u2019s will mandate worker training to combat harassment, discrimination and violence in its restaurants worldwide starting next year, the company said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The training requirement will impact 2 million workers at 39,000 stores worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really important that we be very clear: a safe and respectful workplace where people feel like they\u2019re going to be protected is critically important for our business,\u201d McDonald\u2019s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski told The Associated Press in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s just what society is expecting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The change is part of a larger reckoning over sexual harassment at McDonald\u2019s. At least 50 workers have filed charges against the company over the last five years, alleging physical and verbal harassment and, in some cases, retaliation when they complained. The problem wasn\u2019t confined to restaurants. In November 2019, McDonald\u2019s fired its former CEO Steve Easterbrook after he acknowledged having a relationship with an employee.<\/p>\n

Kempczinski, who joined McDonald\u2019s in 2015, said the company needs to set expectations and then continually refer to them, especially since staff turnover in restaurants can be high.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not constantly talking about values and keeping them in the fore, if you get complacent, then perhaps they\u2019re not as obvious to people or they\u2019re not as inspiring as they could be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s restaurants worldwide \u2014 93 percent of which are owned by franchisees \u2014 will be required to meet the new standards starting in January 2022. They must also collect feedback on the store\u2019s work environment from employees and managers and share those results with staff. Corporate evaluations will consider whether employees feel safe, both physically and emotionally, Kempckinski said.<\/p>\n

Many McDonald\u2019s franchisees support the change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs employers, we have an important role to play in setting the bar high for a values-led, safe and inclusive working environment,\u201d said Mark Salebra, the chairman of the National Franchisee Leadership Alliance, in a statement distributed by McDonald\u2019s. The alliance represents more than 2,000 US franchisees.<\/p>\n

In legal filings, McDonald\u2019s workers have complained about unwanted touching, lewd comments, verbal abuse and physical assaults while on the job. In some cases, workers accused managers of ignoring their complaints or retaliating by giving them fewer shifts or transferring them to other stores.<\/p>\n

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In 2018, McDonald\u2019s attempted to deal with the problem by introducing harassment training for its US franchisees and general<\/a> managers. The following year, it started a hotline for employees to report problems and opened the training program to all of its 850,000 US employees. But at that time, the company didn\u2019t require franchisees to provide the training.<\/p>\n

Kempczinski, who became president and CEO after Easterbrook was forced out, said many franchisees provided the training. But as he thought about the company\u2019s values during the pandemic, which put more emphasis than ever on the health and safety of food workers, he felt it was important to expand the training and make it a requirement.<\/p>\n

Kempckinski wouldn\u2019t say whether McDonald\u2019s has removed any franchisees from its system because of worker harassment charges. Often, when a franchise isn\u2019t ensuring workers\u2019 safety, it has other problems that can lead to its dismissal from the system, he said.<\/p>\n

Details are still being worked out, but Kempczinski said he expects employees will be given training when they start working for McDonald\u2019s. Restaurants might also have training once a year for all employees. That\u2019s similar to the kind of training that is already being done at the company\u2019s Chicago headquarters.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s said it will continue to work with experts and make anti-harassment materials available, but franchisees will be allowed to choose their own training programs.<\/p>\n

Kempczinski said he hopes McDonald\u2019s action becomes a model for the restaurant industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s use this to raise the entire standards for the industry,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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