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  • is a living wage too much to ask for.

  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 worst fast food chains to work for allegedly for this list.

  • We're looking at fast food jobs you might want to think twice about, due to reports of pay disputes, health violations or worse.

  • McDonald's employees protest ng for higher wages, but the fast food giant is still standing its ground number 10 McDonald's.

  • It may be the biggest fast food chain on the planet, but McDonald's has been in the news many times for wage violations and a string of lawsuits brought against it by its employees and knew it.

  • Five fast food workers hit the streets to fight what they call wage theft.

  • In 2019 they settled one such lawsuit for $26 million after violating California labor laws by not paying overtime.

  • That same year, female employees filed gender discrimination complaints, according to the ex employees, When they raised complaints within the company, their work hours were slashed so much they couldn't afford their rent.

  • Similar wage theft lawsuits were settled in New Zealand, while in the UK, workers have gone on strike to try and force McDonald's to raise wages and pay taxes.

  • At the moment, they're on poverty.

  • Wages, like so many workers in this couldn't cheat.

  • Now McDonald's makes a vast amount of money, and they make that huge amounts of profit off the hard graft on labor off those work is behind me.

  • Number nine Subway Eat Fresh.

  • Yeah, maybe not.

  • Employees have said that some stores on Lee get to sometimes just one shipment of ingredients a week so you could be eating vegetables that have been sitting around for days.

  • Employees are aware of the not so fresh food at hand, but feel frustrated because they can't do anything about it.

  • An even bigger problem for employees Many franchises are reportedly chronically understaffed.

  • Sometimes just two people work entire shifts and extra long shifts in some cases.

  • In addition, store closures air happening at an alarming rate, making employment less secure Scandal.

  • It's subway.

  • You may have heard about this one.

  • It turns out some of their famous foot long sandwiches have been coming in a bit short.

  • Number eight Taco Bell.

  • That's my natural.

  • It's never gonna be as good as home cooked Mexican food.

  • But this doesn't mean Taco Bell doesn't have extremely high standards for its employees.

  • Its frequently been called the hardest fast food chain to work for because of the precision in preparing every individual items so that they always look identical.

  • Taco Bell's commitment to this is so extreme that everything has to be weighed.

  • And if you're soft taco is 0.3 ounces Maur or less than what it's supposed to be.

  • It reportedly sometimes gets thrown out, and you have to make it again.

  • When it comes to fast food, no one whips up a taco faster than Taco Bill.

  • We can actually make a taco in less than seven seconds.

  • And while they may have fewer lawsuits than most chains in 2016 they have to pay $500,000 to employees for unpaid lunch breaks.

  • Number seven Sonic.

  • How do they make these wait?

  • Don't tell me unless it's else.

  • After getting slammed with numerous wage theft lawsuits in 2017 Sonic signed an agreement with the U S Department of Labor to improve its compliance with federal law.

  • Unfortunately, Sonic made the headlines again in early 2019 when all employees at three of its locations in Ohio quit simultaneously.

  • This happened when new management allegedly decided to slash wages from Ohio's 8 55 an hour minimum wage to $4 plus tips.

  • Despite the fact that fast food workers rarely, if ever, get tipped, the ex employees left signs in the windows explaining their situation to customers and walked those Sonic denied the accusation.

  • Well, wait a minute.

  • No, just tell me it sells.

  • But have it be the truth, right?

  • Is it magical else?

  • Number six Jimmy John's In 11 2006.

  • Jimmy John's employees were fired after making and distributing some means showing two identical sandwiches claiming one was made by a sick worker and one was made by a healthy worker.

  • They highlighted the fact that workers don't get paid sick days, so they are often forced to work when ill, which can put customers health at risk.

  • This was initially upheld as an unlawful firing because making sick people work meant the chain was selling unsafe food.

  • Unfortunately, in 2017 the decision was reversed.

  • This isn't the only thing Jimmy Johns has gotten publicity for, however, locations across the U s have been sued for wage theft in 2014 and 2015.

  • Number five Popeye's.

  • In August 2019 Popeye's launched its fried chicken sandwich and chaos ensued across the U.

  • S.

  • When people couldn't resist the temptation.

  • I've been trying to make the perfect chicken sandwich, friend.

  • How's that make you feel?

  • But the craze was bad news for employees of the restaurant, who found it hard to cope with demand and angry customers when they ran out of the ingredients.

  • One viral video showed an eight year old boy handling raw chicken at the location is Dad worked at, which was incredibly short staffed because of the sandwich rush.

  • His father was later fired.

  • It's a kid in the kitchen, and he's involved in the preparation of that insanely popular Popeye's chicken sandwich.

  • He appears to be about eight years old and can't be more than four feet tall.

  • There was even a fatal stabbing at a Popeye's in Maryland after someone cut in line, which doesn't make employees want to work there.

  • Number four Wendy's.

  • When the Fair Food Program on agreement specifically designed to protect the rights of tomato growers in Florida was introduced in 2011 Wendy's was the Onley fast food giant that refused to get on board.

  • Have you ever wondered how your tomatoes get to the grocery store?

  • Were given much thought to the people who pick them.

  • Wendy's decided to outsource its fruit suppliers to Mexico, where workers are subject to lower pay and often abuse.

  • Wendy's refuses to roll over and source.

  • It's tomatoes from the U.

  • S.

  • Which has led to numerous protests as well as campaigns to boycott the chain entirely.

  • This will continue and various Wendy's throughout the region.

  • This is definitely not over.

  • Dozens of people outside a Fort Myers Wendy's today protest ng asking the national fast food chain to join the Fair Food Program.

  • The outsourced laborers may not be directly paid by Wendy's, but they are working for them nonetheless.

  • Number three Arby's.

  • They might be famous for their roast beef, but you might get more meat than you bargain for it.

  • Arby's in the summertime, when the weather is huh, you can step right up and get a sandwich.

  • There have been at least two separate instances of human fingers being found in the food there, one in 2004 and another in 2012.

  • Well, you may want to leave the room if you're getting ready for a late night snack.

  • Arby's is apologizing to a Jackson teenager after he found something unexpected in his rope.

  • Be sandwich, a piece of a finger.

  • A teenage boy made the grim discovery in his junior roast beef sandwich, and it was ultimately determined that this finger belonged to an employee of the chain who cut the tip of their finger off on a meat slicer.

  • In 2004 a manager cut their finger off while slicing lettuce.

  • Well, here's a story that might take away your appetite.

  • Michigan team was finishing his Arby's roast beef sandwich when he bit down on something that seemed robbery.

  • He spit it out, only to discover it was the tip of a finger losing a body part for work, Definitely not worth it.

  • Number two Burger King, New Zealand branches of Burger King have seen some particularly stringent policies come their way, including employees allegedly being encouraged to work unpaid overtime thing was in 2019 after the company had already been banned from hiring migrant workers in New Zealand for a year because they weren't paying the minimum wage.

  • In 2015 American Burger King workers staged protests to get a $15 minimum wage, while co founder David Edgerton claimed that this would mean the company's dollar menu wouldn't be sustainable.

  • And in 2014 in Canada, an employee of 24 years, Boucheron was fired for taking home a meal with permission from the manager.

  • She won $35,000 US and damages due to wrongful termination A Canadian judge has awarded a former Burger King employee a whopping 46,000 Canadian dollars.

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  • Number one party's Carl's Jr In 2017 Carl's Jr was fined $1.45 million by the city of Los Angeles for not paying its workers the minimum wage.

  • The company claimed this was simply down to a payroll error, but they were also fined for refusing to let investigators speak to employees and refusing to inform workers of their rights.

  • The CEO, Andy Puzder, was Donald Trump's nominee for U.

  • S Labor secretary of time, and the controversy around the fine was so severe that he had to step down.

  • Mr.

  • Trump also announced fast food executive Andrew Puzder as his pick for secretary of labor.

  • Puzder's company owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr.

  • Best known for these racy ads.

  • Grass On top of this, the company has been flagged for having sexist commercials and for being generally opposed to organization and labor activism.

  • And then it seemed like the ads.

  • But it was deemed sexist, demeaning.

  • The women you say 46% of our consumers are women.

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