26/03/2013
McDonald's will pay $ 7.5 million collective moral damages Autor: Espaço Vital
Arcos Dorados, which is the chain of fast food restaurants McDonalds in Brazil, closed on Thursday (21) According the Labor Court, agreeing to pay $ 7.5 million in the form of collective moral damages, modify the contract of employment of all employees in the country, paying overtime to workers and modify the system registry point.
The deal was led by the National Coordinator for Combating Fraud Labor, José de Lima Ramos, the Labor Court of Recife (PE).
According to the prosecutor, the agreement "was a victory for Brazilian society." The fine will not be paid but spends: the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Recife, where there are civil suits, will receive £ 500,000 each.
The remaining $ 6 million will be divided in four installments of $ 1.5 million, which will be spent on national campaigns for clarification about the importance of compliance with national labor laws. Each year, the value must be corrected by the National Index of Consumer Prices.
Until next July, about 90% of employment contracts already follow a different logic from that practiced by McDonalds the rest of the world. Instead of a "journey Mobile" in which the employee performs some work hours in the morning, others in the afternoon and the other night, preventing the scheduling of other activity during the day, the restaurant will adopt the same rules as other businesses in Brazil.
According to the prosecutor Ramos, the network used the same employment contract in the world, but now no longer use in Brazil. "There was importing a worldwide practice, the idea that the company instilled was that it was a good thing, prevailed national sovereignty," he said.
The rest of the contracts (10% will be set until December. Arcos Dorados also pledged to create interval during working hours, overtime pay, record point and allow workers to bring food from home.
