ISRAELVALLEY - ISRAËL C'SPECIAL. McDONALDS A LICENCIE 773 JEUNES JUIFS ISRAELIENS DE MOINS DE 18 ANS QUI TRAVAILLAIENT AUPARAVANT LE JOUR DU SHABBAT.

Le big boss israélien de la firme américaine va demander aux juges de revoir cette loi qui lui semble discriminatoire.

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Un article récent est paru au Maroc et qui analyse la manière dont les clients musulmans sont traités durant le Ramadan. En Israël Israelvalley a vérifié : dans les villes arabes d’Israël les McDonald’s sont très rarement visités par les clients musulmans. Aucune “brigade des moeurs” n’a été mise en place dans le pays. A Tel-Aviv aucun employé de Mc Donald’s n’a refusé de servir un arabe muslman.

Bon à savoir : musulmans, chrétiens où juifs sont tous à la diète en Israël. Selon nos recherches, la chaîne de Fast Food McDonald’s poursuit ses efforts en Israël pour changer son image de « malbouffe ». Pour cela, elle envisage de réduire le pourcentage de graisse dans sa viande de 17,5% à 9%. La chaîne envisage également de proposer de nouveaux pains de blé complets produit par la boulangerie Angel. Le principal concurrent de la McDonald en Israël, Burger Ranch, a déjà abaissé le pourcentage de matières grasses dans certains de ses produits en dessous de 5%.

Le nombre de calories dans le burger McRoyal est descendu à 495. Selon Mc Donald, il ne resterait plus que 2% de graisses saturées ce qui ferait un total de matières grasses de 5,5%. Un McRoyal avec un petit pain de blé complet réduirait même ces chiffres à 399 calories, 1,8% de graisses saturées et un total de 4,5% de matières grasses.

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YNet et The Marker : McDonalds Israel has notified the 773 teens the company had employed for weekend shifts that they will no longer be allowed to work on Saturdays due to bolstered enforcement of labor laws. The Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry has announced it will fine companies NIS 35,000 for employing Jewish teens on Saturdays.

On June 20, a law allowed increased enforcement of labor laws will take effect, doubling the number of inspectors. The Industry, Trade, and Labor Ministry is ready to fine some 2,000 businesses and indict 700 for violating the law. Under the Youth Employment Law, it is illegal to have Jewish youth employees work during the Sabbath.

The fast food chain predicts that most of the young employees will leave their job since they will no longer be paid a 150% hourly wage that they would have received while working over the weekends.

“McDonalds will no longer employ youths under the age of 17.5 on Saturdays,” a spokesperson for the food chain told Ynet. The chain does not plan to shut down the various branches, but rather intends to employ minority groups over the weekend, since their employment is not illegal in Israel.

The ministry intends to send inspectors to various branches of the popular chain in effort to verify that no law has been broken. McDonalds’ CEO Dr. Omri Padan told Ynet that he intends to petition the High Court of Justice on the issue. According to Padan, the existing law discriminates the youths who do wish to work over the weekend and earn a higher salary.

Padan further said that the chain suggested several alternatives to the existing law. For example, youths will only be permitted to work on Saturdays twice a month and will receive a 150% hourly wage. However, according to Padan, his suggestions were immediately turned down.

According to data presented by the food chain, some 4% of Jewish teens in Israel are employed on Saturdays, thus leaving 96% of the employers susceptible to significant fines.

Meanwhile, Ministry sources have praised the recent enforcement of labor laws. “It shocks me that lawbreaking employers dare to even voice their financial concern over having to dismiss their employees. They have been breaking the law and they cannot continue to do so anymore,” said the Ministry’s legal advisor Michael Atlan.