May 06, 2024
No-poach antitrust litigation against McDonald's is getting back underway in Illinois federal court following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal of the fast food giant's appeal, spurring the district court judge to consider whether more discovery might be needed to determine the appropriate standard that will govern the case.
April 15, 2024
Workers suing McDonald's over its past use of no-poach provisions in franchise agreements have told an Illinois federal court the fast food chain is trying to slow down the case after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up its appeal.
July 29, 2022
A pair of former McDonald's workers have asked the Seventh Circuit to take up their lawsuit accusing the fast-food giant of violating antitrust rules by prohibiting its franchisees from hiring staff from another location, after an Illinois federal judge ruled against them.
June 28, 2022
An Illinois federal court on Tuesday granted a bid from McDonald's to escape claims from ex-workers over the fast-food chain's alleged past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements, saying there was too much competition for their labor to support an antitrust case.
July 28, 2021
An Illinois federal judge declined Wednesday to certify a nationwide class of McDonald's workers challenging no-poach provisions in franchise agreements, finding that the workers weren't all members of the same national labor market.
April 24, 2020
An Illinois federal judge on Friday kept alive a suit by a former McDonald's worker over alleged no-poach provisions in the fast-food giant's franchise agreements, saying the claims were laid out adequately and weren't time-barred.
January 09, 2020
A former McDonald's worker suing the company over no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements told an Illinois federal court Wednesday the chain can't argue that it and its franchises constitute a combined, single brand in the labor market.
October 16, 2019
A no-poach agreement that McDonald's allegedly uses to prevent franchisees from hiring each other's employees can't be blamed for a former McDonald's worker's own inaction in finding new work, the fast-food giant argued in a bid to sack her Illinois federal suit.