McDonald’s Workers File $500 Million Sex Harassment Suit (1)

McDonald’s Corp. and two subsidiaries are accused in a new lawsuit of allowing thousands of mostly female workers at corporate-owned restaurants in Florida to be subjected to rampant sexual harassment.

The proposed class suit alleges widespread retaliation against at least 100 employees who reported the harassment and seeks at least $500 million in compensatory damages alone. The suit was filed April 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, where McDonald’s has its corporate offices.

“McDonald’s has long been aware of, and failed to address, this endemic problem,” lead plaintiffs Jamelia Fairley and Ashley ...