Workers Say McDonald’s Isn’t Keeping Up With Rising Local Wages
- Pay stagnates after high-profile 2015 move on starting salary
- Company says minimum wage pledge was never an ongoing policy
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Three years after McDonald’s Corp. made a splash by saying it would pay all workers at corporate-owned stores in the U.S. at least $1 an hour above the local minimum wage, some workers say the fast-food giant hasn’t kept pace with the times.
In April 2015, amid a tightening labor market and after a string of high-profile labor protests, the burger giant unveiled a new first-of-its-kind wage floor for employees at the roughly 1,500 stores run directly by the corporation.