McDonald’s hires 14- and 15-year-olds.
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During the pandemic and now in the post-pandemic, many fast food restaurants have had great difficulty hiring new staff due to lack of interest from candidates. Such is the case of the McDonald’s hamburger chain that has decided to seek employees in a younger market.
This is not possible in all restaurants, but it is possible in an Oregon branch, in the city of Medford. That is why they display a large banner outside their premises that reads “Hiring now 14 and 15 years old.” It should be noted that in the case of this McDonald’s, the claim is covered by state laws and This has led to applications for employment having increased considerably.
For many fast food restaurants, this understaffing is unprecedented in the United States, which is why McDonald’s is not the only resort to it, Banners have also been seen at other fast food places like Burger King and Wendy’s. Other places, in whose localities minors under 16 are not allowed to work, resort to offering better incentives and a better salary.
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What’s more the company reported that they are working on their best options to include new personnel, this implies better salaries, bonuses for new employees and a benefit that is new and consists of taking care of employees’ children, according to BBC Mundo. Indeed, the hamburger franchise recently announced a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.
In the United States, laws regarding the employment of minors vary from state to state. Oregon is one of the states in which children under 14 years of age can do safe work with limited hours so that they can continue to attend school.
On the other hand, given the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, restaurants and public places are beginning to take up measures from the past to try to control the wave of contagion. In this regard, the McDonald’s restaurant along with other fast food chains are once again limiting both the operational hours as well as the interior spaces of the food outlets.
The Cpvid-19 continues to generate crisis and although the rate of demand for unemployment benefits fell this week, some places are still desperately requesting workers and have declared a terrible shortage of personnel ”, therefore, although the average age of workers in these places is between 25 and 27, now they turn to the youngest.
In mid-August, the fast food restaurant chain, Chick-fil-A announced the closure of some of its branches because they are in “the middle of a personnel crisis” and that their employees are “exhausted and have no relief.”
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