How does this work with the new Supreme Court decision? Is this considered a class action suit against an employer? If so, its no longer allowed thanks to the Pukes in robes on the high court.
That was my question too. I’m no lawyer and if the article specified, I missed it, but I don’t think this is a class action lawsuit. This looks like people getting organized and filing a lot of individual lawsuits.
If a few key support groups arise to help things like this happen, the corporations might end up begging the SCROTUS to overturn their own decision. 5000 individual lawsuits sounds way more obnoxious than a large class action one.
If I’m lying about how all this works, I apologize 
Finally, some chance of improving lives of women who aren’t rich or famous. I find it harder and harder to get excited about all this celebrity shit.
McDonald’s, like all other big corporate entities, probably has an arbitration agreement when an employee signs on to get their job. That would throw a monkey wrench into all these lawsuits I would think, based on SCOTUS’ recent decision. I can see more and more corporations, big and small insist on more of these truly one-sided arbitration agreements. I say ‘agreements’ advisedly as they have to be agreed to if you want the job, which gives the corporation an instant advantage from the day you sign one of them, in order to secure any type of employment. A person has already ceded to the corporation, and there is no opt out provision where if any problems arise, you can choose to file a suit with others in a class action proceeding, if that’s what you ultimately chose to do as a way to move forward with your complaint.
It’s all the fault of the franchisees. And as we know, McDonalds has no control whatsoever over anything their franchises do.
Oh, wait.
"Activists say sexual harassment is pervasive in the fast food industry. "
Really? Okay that is sarcastic, but the fact they are banging on McDonald’s isolates the idea that it is a McDonald’s problem.McDonalds, based on the way they operate with the formality and sophistication of their corporation has a reasonable chance of changing their culture. But there are hundreds of other chains, countless independents out there with the same issue and it is rolled in to the general dysfunction of the business. They will have to change the entire dynamic to the industry to make an impact.
Which is a good thing actually.