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The union representing McDonald's workers has lodged a new case against the fast food giant over unpaid rest breaks for more than 250,000 current and former staff across the country.
McDonald’s has been hit with a lawsuit on behalf of 339 employees across four states alleging it systematically failed to give workers paid 10-minute breaks, a month after a class action was filed against the fast food giant for allegedly denying workers rest breaks.
Fast food giant McDonald’s has been hit with a class action alleging it systematically failed to provide employees with paid 10 minute rest breaks.
McDonald’s Australia has been joined as a second respondent in a union-led lawsuit that accuses the fast food giant of “conspiring to deliberately deny workers their breaks”.
A McDonald’s franchise has been hit with a lawsuit accusing it of deliberately withholding workers’ paid rest breaks and committing “horrifying” and “shameful” violations of the Fair Work Act, the seventh such lawsuit to be filed by the union representing fast food workers.
A McDonald's franchisee accused of failing to give employees paid rest breaks has hit back at a lawsuit filed by the retail workers' union, arguing its employees took their entitled breaks, but sometimes in a "non-continuous" manner.
Hungry Jack's is doubling down on its claim that its 'Big Jack' burger has 25 per cent more beef than rival McDonald’s 'Big Mac', denying the US fast food company's allegation that its beefier burger brag, made in a recent cheeky television ad, is misleading and deceptive.
Fast food giant McDonald's will expand its lawsuit against rival Hungry Jack's to bring a misleading and deceptive conduct allegation over an ad that claims the Big Jack burger is "clearly bigger" than the Big Mac.
Hungry Jack's is defending its 'Big Jack' against trade mark infringement claims by rival fast-food chain McDonald's, saying the burger's moniker incorporates its founder's name with nothing more than a descriptive word for its large size that is "commonly" used by other fast-food restaurants.
Shine Lawyers and the union backing Australia's fast food workers are investigating claims against McDonald's after the Federal Court ruled against a "reckless" franchisee who threatened to bar employees from toilet breaks.