McDonald’s
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Read the latest edition →Community support and workplace systems remain documented. Adding UK safeguarding and franchise-oversight evidence makes agency mixed, alongside the already retained historical food-safety outcome.
Scope: McDonald’s corporate programmes, company and franchise restaurant standards, specified UK safeguarding and franchise-oversight evidence, and the completed 2024 U.S. onion outbreak.
Scope, period & review disclosure
What this score covers
McDonald’s corporate programmes, company and franchise restaurant standards, specified UK safeguarding and franchise-oversight evidence, and the completed 2024 U.S. onion outbreak.
2024–2025 company and outbreak evidence; November 2025 safeguards and February 2026 parliamentary report; reviewed 14 September 2026
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Published under HAPPYWorth scoring standard v1.0. No independent human research review is recorded.
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Mixed evidence
Connection
60/1001 supporting source
Vitality
40/1001 supporting source
Security
40/100Agency
40/100How the total is calculated
(40/100 + 60/100 + 40/100 + 40/100 + 40/100) ÷ 5 = 44/100
Each dimension carries 20% of the total.
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Franchise employers are separate, and the UK evidence cannot establish prevalence worldwide. Parliamentary concerns and the company’s response are assessed together, without treating allegations as final court findings or safeguards as proven effective. CDC says the 2024 outbreak is over. Direct access to the EHRC announcement was unavailable; this edition cites the accessible company response and parliamentary report, and does not claim a complete legal-file review.
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- Contrary-evidence search was targeted, not systematic.
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Sources you can inspect.
- McDonald’s: Purpose & Impact report ↗
Company disclosure
- CDC: final onion outbreak investigation ↗
Regulator or public authority
- McDonald’s UK: enhanced EHRC agreement and implemented safeguards ↗
Company disclosure
- UK Parliament: Small business strategy, paragraphs 191–195 ↗
Research publication
Score history.
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Sep 15, 2026
Not scoredReviewed · Latest edition
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44/100Reviewed · Previous edition
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48/100Reviewed · Previous edition
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48/100Published · Previous edition
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