The ElectronicIntifada writes ¹:
Abeer Zinaty, an Israeli citizen of Palestinian origin was fired from her job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ramle, central Israel, specifically because she spoke Arabic to a co-worker, according to a report by Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly (4-10 March 2004). ²
Later, they write ³:
McDonald’s Corporation today confirmed that it has a policy banning its employees from speaking Arabic in its restaurants in Israel, despite the fact that Palestinian citizens of Israel form 20% of its workforce, and Arabic is one of the two official languages of Israel. The Corporation denied, however, that Abeer Zinaty, a former “Excellent Worker 2003 – McDonald’s Israel,” was fired because she spoke Arabic on the job.
If you then try to contact McDonald’s in the United States ⁴:
**McDonald’s USA Contact Us** This site is temporarily down for maintenance. Please contact us by calling our National Customer 800 number at 1-800-244-6227.
Later it worked, I chose ⟶ Social Responsibility Efforts ⁵ ⟶ Employment Practices and got:
**Forbidden** Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.
And when you choose the form:
**Server Error** This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server’s error log.
Sometimes it really does feel as if they do it on purpose.
And the investigation continues ⁶...
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