{"id":1861,"date":"2007-08-06T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/07\/if-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-can-do-it-why-can%e2%80%99t-wal-mart\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:04:50","slug":"if-mcdonalds-can-do-it-why-cant-wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/08\/06\/if-mcdonalds-can-do-it-why-cant-wal-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"If McDonald\u2019s Can Do It, Why Can\u2019t Wal-Mart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/walmartwatch.com\/blog\/archives\/mcdonaldss_in_china\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070809_mcdo-walmart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/070809_mcdo-walmart.jpg\" title=\"070809_mcdo-walmart.jpg\" alt=\"070809_mcdo-walmart.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">McDonald\u2019s is raising wages overseas. The fast food retailer operates on business model similar to Wal-Mart: selling massive quantities of cheap goods. McDonald\u2019s has made room in its budget for salary increases for low-level employees &#8211; and its stock prices have gone up. Perhaps a dual lesson in good labor relations and company worth? McDonald\u2019s to Raise Wages in China After Government Criticism [Bloomberg News]. McDonald\u2019s Corp., the world\u2019s biggest restaurant company, plans to raise wages in <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">China<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> by 12 percent after government criticism of the chain\u2019s labor practices. McDonald\u2019s will increase salaries for its restaurant workers to 56 percent above minimum wage guidelines, affecting 45,000 full-time and part-time workers, the company\u2019s Beijing- based spokeswoman Wang Jianhui confirmed. The gains were reported earlier in the Wall Street Journal. Wang declined to elaborate. Image source: walmartwatch.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/walmartwatch.com\/blog\/archives\/mcdonaldss_in_china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>China<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=2\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">McDonald\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">,<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Wal-Mart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/walmartwatch.com\/blog\/archives\/mcdonaldss_in_china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wal-Mart Watch<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s is raising wages overseas. The fast food retailer operates on business model similar to Wal-Mart: selling massive quantities of cheap goods. McDonald\u2019s has made room in its budget for salary increases for low-level employees &#8211; and its stock prices have gone up. Perhaps a dual lesson in good labor relations and company worth? McDonald\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mcdonalds","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}