In Chicago, the American network of restaurants of fast food McDonald's temporarily closed its headquarters kvaritru because of the protests of workers of the enterprises of the company, reports the Associated Press.
It is noted that employees require higher minimum salaries, equivalent to $15 per hour. They have pitched tents in front of the headquarters to continue their protests on 26 may.
"Employees encouraged to work from home. Most of them took advantage of this opportunity", — said the official representative of the company Lisa McComb.
Meeting of McDonald's shareholders will be held on Thursday, but tens of thousands of people will try to prevent this.
In April the Ministry of Finance of France accused the French branch of the American network of fast food restaurants McDonald's in tax evasion.
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