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Speaker 1: If you worked at McDonald's between two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty, about forty thousand current and former McDonald's

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Speaker 1: staff might experience a little winfull because of having to

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Speaker 1: correct a widespread payroll issue Gene tibtraine as the Heralds

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Speaker 2: What happened, right, So there's a Holidays Act two thousand

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Speaker 2: and three, and that is proving to be a very

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Speaker 2: complicated and problematic piece of legislation because a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: of employers, including government departments, have misinterpreted the Act and

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Speaker 2: paid people incorrectly. And this relates to and you'll leave

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Speaker 2: holiday pay that type of thing. Now, for some years,

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Speaker 2: various employers have been reimbursing staff because of this spotch up,

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Speaker 2: because of this confusion under the act. And McDonald's is

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Speaker 2: the latest large employer to start this quite significant reimbursement project. So,

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Speaker 2: as you said in your intro, around and current and

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Speaker 2: former McDonald's staff are likely to be compensated. The company

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Speaker 2: reckons they'll receive tens of millions of dollars. The load

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Speaker 2: tens of millions. Wouldn't say exactly how much, but I've

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Speaker 2: had a little look online on various social media platforms,

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Speaker 2: and you know, people are talking about receiving three thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars one two hundred, someone's talked about receiving ten thousand dollars,

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Speaker 2: So good news for some people.

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Speaker 1: Do you know if it comes with interest, like, are

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Speaker 1: you going to get it in two thousand and ninees

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Speaker 1: money or are you going to get it in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty fours money? Because Jeney, that's a different story.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is a very good question, and I don't

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Speaker 2: know the answer to that. It sounds like a really

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Speaker 2: complicated process all of this, and because McDonald's the various

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Speaker 2: stores are owned by various franchisees, so the issue has

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Speaker 2: been pulling them all together and figuring out what the

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Speaker 2: payments are. So actually, some people have been overpaid over

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Speaker 2: the years. Those people won't be asked to repay McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: But the issue here is that there are some stores

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Speaker 2: where people won't be reimbursed. Yeah, so there's about a

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Speaker 2: handful of stores that are either they're outside of this

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Speaker 2: massive process that the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Speaker 2: is involved with with McDonald's, and those people will log

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Speaker 2: onto this portal online and be told that they won't

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Speaker 2: be repaid for now at least. So yeah, complicated issue

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Speaker 2: and I think there will probably be some disappointed people there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, thank you, Jena, I really appreciate it. Thanks

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