McDonald’s has closed its U.S. workplaces by means of Wednesday and informed its company employees to work remotely because it prepares to announce a spherical of layoffs.
In a memo to employees posted on the web site TheLayoff.com, the Chicago-based burger big mentioned it wished to “ensure the comfort and confidentiality of our people during the notification period” and would maintain all notification conferences just about. It informed worldwide company employees to observe steering of their specific areas.
The firm mentioned within the memo that the layoffs are meant to make McDonald’s extra environment friendly.
“We have a clear opportunity ahead of us to get faster and more effective at solving problems for our customers and people and to globally scale our successful market innovations at speed,” the corporate mentioned.
Starbucks fires union activist
Starbucks has fired one of many employees who helped kick off a unionization effort on the firm.
Lexi Rizzo was an eight-year Starbucks worker and shift supervisor. She was fired from her retailer in Buffalo, New York, on Friday.
Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing Starbucks’ employees, mentioned Rizzo was fired after arriving a couple of minutes late for work. Rizzo was one of many employees who first reached out to labor organizers in 2021 to unionize Starbucks shops. Seattle-based Starbucks opposes the unionization effort.
Starbucks mentioned Monday that Rizzo was fired for “repeated and substantial violations” of its attendance coverage, together with one occasion the place she arrived greater than three hours late for a shift. Starbucks mentioned it had documented six situations wherein Rizzo missed greater than 4 hours of labor.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”