France: McDonald's employees demonstrate to denounce the violence they suffer
The demonstration against the American restaurant chain is organized by the McDroits collective.
Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP
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With nearly 1,490 restaurants and more than 74,000 employees McDonald's is often qualified according to some discerning observers as one of the leading recruiters of young people in France.
After filing a complaint with the OECD, several employees demonstrate this Friday, in front of the headquarters of this sign in Versailles, to denounce the violence they have suffered.
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Moral and sexual harassment, physical assault, racist comments, all this incredible behavior is at McDonald's that it happens.
This is what reveals this survey carried out by the journalist of
Streetpress,
Quentin Muller, who collected in particular testimonies, here of the women who tell the sexism in their place of work.
"
Let the
'beautiful women'
with big breasts go to the cash register.
When you start from this conception of woman, that is to say, she must be shaved, she must put on the skirt and not the pants, the outfits must be as tight as possible and make client, when you start from these extremely macho, degrading conceptions, you understand that then the human resources policy will be violent, racist, homophobic, sexist.
The employee, we want to do what we want with them.
And sometimes it goes to extremes which are totally deplorable from a channel that says loudly in its advertisements
"come as you are" ".
"
The restaurant chain in a statement ensures fight against all" inadmissible behavior
".
The exhausted employees, grouped around the McDroits collective, have decided to break the law of silence.
They demonstrate this Friday in front of the company's headquarters.
The two surveys conducted by
Mediapar
t and
StreetPress
are based on the testimonies of 78 employees.
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See also: United States: strike in McDonald's, accused of negligence in the face of Covid-19
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