【延伸阅读朗读版已更新在公众号“可可英语晨读”】免费领取600+期精美双语打印版讲义、加入晨读打卡学习群，微信关注“可可英语晨读”公众号，win the morning，win the day！

McDonald’s tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation

Over the years the world’s most powerful fast-food chain, McDonald’s, has twice honored a Saudi prince’s business empire with its highest accolade for its franchisees: the Golden Arch award.

The boss who controls more than 200 McDonald’s outlets across Saudi Arabia – told CEO Magazine in 2018 that one of the secrets of his enterprise’s success is “ensuring a positive and favorable environment for our employees”.

However, employees recall a different environment. They say that they labored under harsh and unfair conditions at McDonald’s locations owned and operated by the prince’s Riyadh International Catering Corp (RICC).

Lee, who is from the Philippines, says RICC’s store managers ordered him to put in as many as 22 hours a day and hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime. He was denied days off for rest, he says, even when he was sick with fever.

【延伸阅读朗读版已更新在公众号“可可英语晨读”】免费领取600+期精美双语打印版讲义、加入晨读打卡学习群，微信关注“可可英语晨读”公众号，win the morning，win the day！