{"id":39339,"date":"2014-03-21T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39339"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:09:20","slug":"mcdonalds-workers-sue-for-wage-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/21\/mcdonalds-workers-sue-for-wage-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Workers Sue for Wage Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140321Uprising\/2014_03_21_mcdonalds.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Cathy Ruckelshaus <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140321Uprising\/2014_03_21_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mcdonalds_wage_theft.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The campaign for fair wages for fast food workers took a new turn recently with workers at McDonalds franchises filing a number of lawsuits in cities around the country over what they are calling &#8220;wage theft.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In California alone, three suits were filed. Workers say they are often underpaid, not paid for overtime, not reimbursed for work-related expenses, or not allowed to start their shifts until enough customers arrive. Protests in 30 cities on Tuesday highlighted the issue, the same day that New York&#8217;s Attorney General announced a $500,000 settlement to compensate staff at 7 McDonald&#8217;s franchises in the state. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s, which does not run most of its franchises directly, has said it is investigating the claims. The lawsuits are the latest step of the broader &#8220;Fight for 15&#8221; campaign to raise fast food workers&#8217; hourly wages to $15 an hour. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Catherine Ruckelshaus is Legal Co-Director of the National Employment Law Project, where she convenes the Just Pay Working Group of advocates, academics, and state and federal policymakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelp.org\">www.nelp.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign for fair wages for fast food workers took a new turn recently with workers at McDonalds franchises filing a number of lawsuits in cities around the country over what they are calling &#8220;wage theft.&#8221; In California alone, three suits were filed. Workers say they are often underpaid, not paid for overtime, not reimbursed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39359,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39339\/revisions\/39359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}