McDonalds New Zealand union activist sacked for telling Parliament about missing meal breaks! Stop rights abuses at McDonalds New Zealand! McDonalds New Zealand has sacked union delegate Sean Bailey for helping to expose the companys repeated failures to provide meal breaks for many staff working more than a four-hour shift as required by law, and for giving critical testimony on this issue to a parliamentary committee. Unite is currently involved in legal action against McDonalds over the missing meal breaks. Bailey gave testimony to a Select Committee investigating employment law, following which he was issued a disciplinary letter stating It appears that what you have said during the course of the select committee hearing and doing so in uniform may give rise to breaches of your obligations to your employer. The rules of Parliament expressly prohibit threatening or disadvantaging a person for presenting evidence
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:22:34 +0000
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