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Τρίτη 6 Αυγούστου 2013

The Magical World Where McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour? It's Australia Even in countries with a high minimum wage, the golden arches manage to turn a profit. Here's how.


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Last week, fast-food workers around the United States yet again 
walked off the job to protest their low pay and demand a wage hike to $15 an hour, about double what many of them earn today. In doing so, they added another symbolic chapter to an eight-month-old campaign of one-day strikes that, so far, has yielded lots of news coverage, but not much in terms of tangible results.

So there's a certain irony that in Australia, where the minimum wage for full-time adult workers already comes out to about $14.50 an hour, McDonald's staffers were busy scoring an actual raise. On July 24, the country's Fair Work Commission approved a new labor agreement between the company and its employees guaranteeing them up to a 
up to a 15 percent pay increase by 2017.  
And here's the kicker: Many Australian McDonald's workers were already
making more than the minimum to begin with.... [...] 


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