Via AFP:
US workers accused fast-food giant McDonald's Thursday of systematically stealing wages through illicit practices like forcing them to work off-the-clock and failing to pay overtime.
Seven class-action lawsuits were filed Wednesday and Thursday in California, Michigan and New York demanding that McDonald's pay back the stolen wages and end the practices that violate state and federal laws, lawyers representing the workers said.
McDonald's Corporation is named in all seven lawsuits, while franchisees were included in five of them.
The lawsuits argue that McDonald's, which took in near...
