Stephen Easterbrook ended up as CEO of McDonald’s last November. The reason was a love affair with one of his subordinates, which is prohibited by the chain’s directives. During the internal investigation at the time, Easterbrook claimed that no other similar case had taken place.
Boss McDonald’s left the company due to a relationship with a subordinate |
Now society has accused him of lying. Easterbrook allegedly “hid the evidence and lied about his guilt,” the agency quoted from the lawsuit Reuters. According to the company’s lawyers, in the year preceding his release, he had sex with three McDonald’s employees. In addition, one of them was to approve a special corporate stock grant worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The chain is now demanding that the former CEO return the severance pay he received last year. Due to the circumstances of his departure, Easterbrook was entitled to approximately $ 670,000 and other benefits in the form of McDonald’s shares. He signed an agreement with the board of directors to terminate his work in the company. If the company’s management had known about his romances sooner, he would not have received any compensation, the lawsuit stands.
Dozens of nude photos
Easterbrook himself has not yet responded to the allegations. According to the server CNBC In addition to the lawsuit, McDonald’s has also taken steps to prevent it from selling corporate shares or exercising stock options.
Easterbrook’s successor Chris Kempczinski informed McDonald’s staff about the lawsuit in an internal memorandum on Monday. In it, according to the agency Bloomberg He stated that the company had re-investigated the departure of the former CEO on the basis of a report from one of the employees.
Lawyers now reportedly have dozens of nude photos of various women, including McDonald’s employees Easterbrook sent from his corporate e-mail account. The photos were taken at the turn of 2018 and 2019, when he was still the CEO. “The photographs are indisputable evidence that Easterbrook has repeatedly violated the prohibition of any confidential relationship between employees,” the lawsuit said.
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