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Fat Employees Monday, 01 November 2010 11:30  McDonald's Liable
for Fat Employees  Written by   The madness of the courts and
the greed of trial lawyers are proverbial. The woman who won a
huge award from McDonald’s when she spilled hot coffee on her
lap has become, perhaps, the archetypical example of litigation
run wild. Now McDonald’s again finds itself making headlines in
a lawsuit over conduct that seems safe and ordinary to most of
us.  A court in Brazil has ordered McDonald’s to pay a man who
worked for the company for a dozen years an award of $17,500.
What offense did the fast-food chain commit? It offered free
lunches to employees. It also hired people incognito to visit
restaurants and report on food quality, which forced the
plaintiff to sample the food to make sure that the quality was
good.  As a result of this, the former franchise manager sued
McDonald’s for his gain of 65 pounds over a 12-year period. This
case is another stark re