A BBC investigation that a gang of Czech traffickers exploited 16 vulnerable victims, forcing them to work for years at a McDonald's and a bakery in the UK.
“without noticing” is pulling a lot of weight in that headline. Innocent until proven guilty and all that but I’m willing to bet there were at least some individuals ‘in’ on the deal.
I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.
I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.
“without noticing” is pulling a lot of weight in that headline. Innocent until proven guilty and all that but I’m willing to bet there were at least some individuals ‘in’ on the deal.
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I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.
I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.