McDonald's Australia partners with the Fair Work Ombudsman
Young workers to benefit.
McDonald’s Australia has entered a new partnership with the Fair Work Ombudsman to continue to improve workplace practices at its restaurants across the country.
The fast food chain has signed a second Proactive Compliance Deed with the Fair Work Ombudsman. The two-year agreement aims to ensure that more than 90,000 employees (mostly casuals) at 922 McDonald’s restaurants are paid correctly.
McDonald’s Director of Human Resources, Melissa Roseworne, said the company considers it “a great privilege, but also a great responsibility” to employ so many young people.
“We work hard to provide a world-class work environment for our employees,” she said.
“Our continued partnership with the Fair Work Ombudsman is an example of our commitment to continuously improve and contribute to our reputation as one of Australia’s best places to work.”
“McDonald’s acknowledges there are always opportunities for continuous improvement in
the workplace, and it is now seeking out these opportunities,” noted Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James.
“By signing up to this Proactive Compliance Deed, the company is demonstrating its commitment to being an employer of choice for young Australians.
“An employer of choice goes beyond meeting minimum obligations. It’s a business that continues to look for ways to improve – and this is what McDonald’s is doing through this new partnership with us.”
McDonald’s signed the Fair Work Ombudsman’s first Proactive Compliance Deed in April,
2011. Under the first agreement, it self-audited about 8500 wage transactions for the previous two years.
The company’s self-auditing revealed 100 per cent compliance for wages paid in 2009 and 97 per cent for wages paid in 2010.
