McDonald’s UK arm slashed donations to Children in Need last year, accounts show | McDonald’s
McDonald’s British branch, according to the latest accounts, despite the profits of more than 80% profits last year, despite the profits reduced donations to some charities.
In 2024, the newly opened documents to the company’s house for the British business of the fast food chain gave £ 529,000 to the children in need – fell from £ 952,000 the previous year and gave Ronald McDonald House Charities £ 744,000 for £ 744,000.
It reduced the number of staff directly from 26,384 to 24,375 – all discounts from restaurants and operations instead of the center office.
McDonald’s has more than 1,400 sites in England and Ireland, and a large rate is franchise owners who employ their staff – more than 140,000 people. More than half of the sales reported by the British branch came through franchise owners. The transfer of some workers who abandoned the fully owned sales points of McDonald’s to the franchise partners was not explained in the accounts.
In 2024, the UK business paid £ 83 million to the main group from scratch in 2024, because the pre -tax profits rose to 120 million pounds despite a slight decrease up to £ 1.82 billion.
The details of the reduced personnel in McDonald’s come after the group’s high street land continues to be “affected by the retail uprising”.
An explanation from the Board included in the accounts, an improvement in the business profit is “mainly directed due to savings in administrative expenses”, but this improvement was slowing down with ongoing inflationist pressures affecting food, paper and benefit costs on the property operated by the company.
The enterprise, which has been criticized for the heavy use of zero -hour contracts to be restricted under the new government measures, said that the personnel presented “election between guaranteed hours and flexible contracts”.
McDonald’s, after the harassment reports on zero -hour contracts of the British personnel, said that he had taken the “president of the protection ve in his accounts and established an investigation to follow a unit to follow the allegations of abuse.
In January, McDonald’s General Manager said that 29 people were dismissed last year after the allegations of sexual harassment. Fast Food chain British boss Alistair Macrow, the company has been warned against 75 sexual harassment claims in the last 12 months and 47 of them have been approved by disciplinary punishment and caused 29 of them to be rejected.
At that time, the group spokesman said: “Any abuse and harassment is unacceptable and is subject to fast and comprehensive investigation and action.” He said.
McDonald’s UK was approached for a comment.
