McDonald’s — the place where a lot of young Aussies start their working lives — has been accused of the wage theft of more than 250,000 people, who collectively want at least $250 million in compensation. If it gets up, it’ll likely be one of the biggest wage theft cases in Australian history.
Per The Herald Sun, the fast food giant allegedly either told workers at hundreds of shops across Australia that they could swap out their paid breaks for “free soft drinks” or toilet breaks or didn’t tell workers about break entitlements at all.
Lawyers representing the workers union are set to claim this behaviour was “systematic and deliberate” and went against the Fast Food Award.
The award states
