franchises had violations of labor laws that could be considered wage theft. according to the workers attorneys these lawsuits could cover 30,000 workers. i have often been forced to work off the clock and after my shift ends at midnight for five to ten minutes, sometimes 15 to 20 minutes, doing cleanup and other basic job duties. it may not sound like a lot but when you re living on the edge like me, every penny counts. a statement saying, quote, mcdonald s and our independent owner/operators are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of allegations. just as this new round of lawsuits kicked off, new york attorney general announced the results of another lawsuit his office spearheaded last year. the owner of seven new york city mcdonald s franchises agreed to pay more than 1,600 workers nearly half a million dollars to settle a claim he failed to pay his workers all the wages they were owed.
involved, as you consider when and how to release evidence and how to proceed with the investigation, how much are you considering what s going on for the families? that s a great point, chr krystal. investigators have to be cognizant of that at all times. 230 people on the aircraft or hundreds of thousands of family and friends that are feeling the impact of this. investigators have to be sensitive to that and there s always a balance. you have to ask probing questions. it s really important in order to elicit the right information, but it also has to be done with some sensitivity and understanding about the people that are involved here. such a great point. ta dave, as we re looking at the third satellite image showing possible debris in the southern i indian ocean, in what we ve been calling the southern arc of the potential plane trajectory, should we be honing in or
top. they say that mcdonald s franchisees use software provided by the company that instructs restaurants to retuesday staffing when sales drop below a certain level in any given hour so applying a lot of pressure there. as a result the lawyer said some mcdonald s workers in the suit were ordered upon reporting to work not to clock in for an hour or two and instead wait until more customers arrived. is there a problem also at the corporate level, and do you have plans to launch an investigation of mcdonald s the corporation rather than just the franchise owners? well, our investigations are ongoing and as you mentioned the lawsuits filed in michigan, california and new york, do allege, and it appears to be the case, that there is software made available by the corporation to the franchises so they can do what s called just in time staffing which essentially means workers are waiting around to see often if they get a call, if it s busy enough for them to come in. it s an abusive pract
france 447 from the floating debris and then when they found the debris on the bottom they were able to ascertain pretty quickly the airplane had hit at a very high vertical rate with a low forward speed and you could tell that by the defamation of the skin around things like the ghali. so the fi galley. if there was an onboard fire there will be soot. those are the things investigators will look for once weep find the main body of the wreckage and that will determine what pieceses they want to bring up. the recorders, definitely, those will be brought up possibly if they re found, and i think they will be. but the physical evidence as far as other parts of the airplane, photographic evidence, the investigators will conclude what adds value to the investigation and that s what they ll want to recover. and, shawn, in your experience with the fbi when you re conducting an investigation of this magnitude where there s also a human tragedy and impacted families
there are people like the u.s. coast guard, there s a number of very, very sophisticated computer models that can take the actual wind, the actual current on the given days and then begin to build it backwards, to say, okay, this is the likely point of impact. from there, depending on the depth of the water, what s the current? where can we narrow the search down for the main body of the wreckage? what are the other pieces of investigation that are sort going on in parallel right now? while we are looking in the south indian ocean, we don t know for sure that that s where the plane is located. what else is going on in the investigation? well, the parallel investigation is going on. there s a criminal investigation that s looking into the backgrounds of everybody around the airplane, passengers, ground service agents, anyone involved, flight crew members. so that s one piece. on the other hand, you have the accident investigation, which is really kind of depending on finding initial