McDonald's Japan Ageing Pains

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Crisscross: McDonald's Japan to scrap age-60 mandatory retirement system
McDonald's Co (Japan) said Tuesday that it will scrap the mandatory retirement age of 60 retroactively from April 1 this year. Employees "must not lose the opportunity to contribute to the company because of their age, which is not related to their ability," said spokesman Ichiro Yoshimoto...more...

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Kyodo via Crisscross: McDonald's Japan to scrap age-60 mandatory retirement system

Bingo. McDonald's Japan solved all their staffing problems. Japanese old people looooove of working at shit jobs for no money (even when many don't need the money).

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Yahoo: 1st labor union of McDonald's Japan established

A labor union of McDonald's Co. (Japan) has been established for the first time in the 35 years since the Japanese unit of the U.S. fast food hamburger restaurant started operations, the nation's largest labor union group said Monday. The labor union, with about 200 initial members including shop managers, notified the management of its establishment, said the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo. Rengo has launched activities to solicit about 5,000 regular-payroll workers and about 130,000 part-time workers at about 3,800 shops nationwide to join the union. It is the first time for workers of a major hamburger chain operator in Japan to set up a labor union. According to the charter of the labor union, there is a need to promote negotiations with the management to improve working conditions of regular-payroll and part-time workers as some shop managers are forced to work more than 2,000 hours of overtime a year. The charter says the deterioration of working conditions stems from the management policy to place top priority on increasing sales by promoting such strategies as round-the-clock operations and marketing 100-yen hamburgers.