Employee is one of the important stakeholders for all type of organization in this world. The organization must be able to let their employees maintain minimum rights. When the employees have given the minimum right as an employee and have reasonable wages for their work, this will help to increase their productivity and motivation toward their job. There are several ways to help employee protect their right, one of the way is employees having a union membership and the employer give union recognition toward the union.
Our topic is employment relation practices in multinational company. We are focusing our research in fast food industry, we chosen McDonald as object to study. McDonald’s is the one of the most recognized brands around the world, the restaurants can be found in 118 countries. McDonald currently employed more than 1.7 million of employees working at over 35,000 restaurants in the world.
A trade union may seek recognition in an organization by voluntary or statutory. Voluntary union recognition is a union from the particular organization uses voluntary means to get recognition. This process will run without using any legal procedures. Statutory union recognition means union make an application or using legal procedure for recognition in organization that
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In the mid 1970s, it routinely used union busting techniques. In the recruitment procedures, they use lie detector tests to weed out person who is union sympathisers. There is some reason that McDonald’s not give union recognition. For example, the corporation’s concern for its public image has lead to a more delicate approach. This has been especially marked in Europe where the corporation has been unable to evade some level of involvement with trade unions and has adopted a more union friendly face in some countries (Royle,