McDonald’s owners offer child care, tuition to draw workers amid shortage

McDonald’s owners will offer emergency child-care benefits, tuition help and other perks to employees as the fast-food behemoth looks to lure workers amid the nationwide labor shortage.

The chain’s US franchisees are also planning to raise hourly pay and offer more paid time off to attract new workers, retain existing ones and improve the company’s image as an employer, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an internal presentation from the company. Franchisees own about 95 percent of the burger giant’s roughly 13,450 stores in the US, but the corporate parent said it will make a multimillion-dollar investment to support the efforts, according to the Journal.