Every McDonald’s warned over staff sexual abuse

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1. No job is worth sexual harassment but a maccas job definitely isn’t.

2. Why does it seem to always be McDonald’s? Is the culture there that bad?

3. What is notable is that Liam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Select Committee said it was “especially concerning because the regulator has known about hundreds of allegations of harassment for several years” and since July 2023 than 160 people have approached the BBC with allegations while the EHRC has heard 300 reported incidents of harassment.

   The EHRC itself was investigated when allegations of bullying and harassment by Baroness Baroness Falkner were made by members of staff which led to an internal investigation. Kemi Badenoch drafted in outside legal experts and the EHRC ended its investigation but, of course, the results were never published.

   The fact that nothing much seems to have happened until the BBC became involved, ironic given the BBC’s own issues and raises the question of whether the organisation is actually fit for purpose with it’s current leadership or in it’s current form. When at this stage the EHRC head John Kirkpatrick told the BBC’s Today programme that the letter was a “starting point” I start thinking about the effectiveness of chocolate teapots.

   I may be cynical, but with issues like this, the blood and Post office scandals and ofwat, it really does seem that watchdogs and regulators are more about ‘jobs for the boys’ not rocking the corporate boats and maintaining the status quo than actively serving the public.

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