McDonald's franchisee to pay almost $2 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuit.

Date01 February 2023

McDonald's is in the news again for sexual harassment, this time to settle an EEOC suit involving a Kingman, Ariz., franchise owner operating approximately 18 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California. The company will pay $1,997,500.

According to the lawsuit, since at least 2017, AMTCR, the franchise owner, knew about sexual harassment and allowed it to continue unabated. The harassing conduct was mainly directed at teenage employees. As AMTCR failed to adequately address the complaints, many workers found the working conditions so intolerable that they had no choice but to...

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