1. Please study the article A, below and do a summary on the Ethical Issues (slide 16) and the financial impact into a business for the article Fast-food workers file $500 million harassment suit against McDonald's. As an operation manager for this company what will be your action plan and why?

2. As an executive in a travel corporation how can you minimize the Three small business SCM concerns inventory management, reducing risk and international trade (slide 17)? Please use the Article B and do a brief analysis and thank you. I really need your understanding managerial skills and vision. right under number 2 i pasted all of slide 16 it starts with scm ethical issues and there are bullet pointed examples of everything on slide 16. it ends rught before article A (Slide 16 for question 1): SCM Ethical issues

Examples:

Bribing government or company officials to secure permits or favorable status

Exporting smokestacks to developing countries

Claiming a green supply chain when the level of green is only minimal

Ignoring health, safety, and environmental standards

Violating basic worker rights

Mislabeling the country of origin

Selling products abroad that are banned at home

Dealing with ethical issues:

Develop an ethical supply chain code of behavior

Monitor supply chain activities

Choose suppliers that have a reputation for good ethical behavior

Incorporate compliance with labor standards in supplier contracts

Address any ethical problems that arise swiftly

Article A

Fast-food workers file $500 million harassment suit against McDonald's in 2020.

Florida McDonald's workers announced they had filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit against McDonald's, alleging the fast-food giant has a "systemic sexual harassment problem."

Jamelia Fairley and Ashley Reddick are the named plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed on behalf of the 5,000 women who worked at the 100 corporate-run McDonald's locations in Florida since 2016.

Fairley and Reddick were co-workers at a McDonald's location in Florida, where they say that women faced physical assaults, groping, and sexually charged comments on the job.

Reddick said she dealt with sexual comments from a male co-worker and from customers.

According to Reddick, a manager failed to take action when she reported her co-worker's behavior. Reddick's shifts were cut, and she was eventually fired after reporting the behavior, according to the complaint.

Fairley said that she faced physical and verbal harassment from co-workers. According to the complaint, Fairley's hours were cut after she reported her co-workers behavior multiple times.

In a 2016 study, 40% of women working at fast-food chains said they had been sexually harassed at work. A 2015 survey of almost 1,500 fast-food, Monday's class-action suit is filed with support from the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund. It is the latest in more than 50 complaints filed by McDonald's workers in the past three years, as sexual harassment and abuse on the job has become a major emphasis of the Fight for 15 movement, which organizes fast-food protests over issues related to workers' rights and pay.

In addition to $500 million in damages, the lawsuit is demanding McDonald's implement worker-centered anti-harassment policies and training, including teaching in-store and upper-level managers how to investigate complaints and discipline harassers.

McDonald's said in a statement that it "has always been committed to ensuring that our employees are able to work in an environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment."

"McDonald's is demonstrating its continued commitment to this issue through the implementation of Safe and Respectful Workplace Training in 100% of our corporate-owned restaurants and encourages our franchisees to do the same," the statement continued.

"The plaintiffs' allegations of harassment and retaliation were investigated as soon as they were brought to our attention, and we will likewise investigate the new allegations that they have raised in their complaint."

McDonald's has rolled out internal efforts to combat harassment over the last few years.

Last year, corporate-owned locations debuted a new policy on discrimination, harassment, and retaliation and McDonald's launched a hotline that all employees can call to express concerns and report harassment.

Only about 5% of McDonald's locations are corporate-owned.

In October 2019, McDonald's partnered with its National Franchisee Leadership Association and the Women Operators Network to roll out a new workplace training program.

ARTICLE B

How hard will the corona virus hit the travel industry?

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020, many industries have fallen as far and as fast as tourism. The technological revolution that brought us closer together by making travel and tourism easy and affordable (a revolution that fueled one billion trips a year) is helpless in halting a virus that demands we shelter in place.

Taking a snapshot of tourism losses is difficult, as the data changes as quickly as the virus spreads. If the pandemic continues for several more months, the World Travel and Tourism Council the trade group representing major global travel companies, projects a global loss of 75 million jobs and $2.1 trillion in revenue.

Losses come daily; as of April 2, British Airways is reportedly poised to suspend 36,000 staffers.

Gloria Guevara, the CEO of WTTC, is lobbying governments to offer support to travel companies saying these potential job losses are bringing real and profound worry to millions of families around the world.

Americas travel industry is among the hardest hit.

The U.S. Travel Association projects a loss of 4.6 million jobs through May, a figure likely to increase. U.S. weekly jobless claims 6.6 milion, doubling in a week and by far the biggest spike in half a century. Tourism decline is a driving reason for job losses in states including Nevada, where Las Vegas casinos and jumbo hotels have gone dark.

Airlines project losses of at least $250 billion due to travel restrictions from COVID-19.

On March 29, 2020 to contain the virus in America, President Donald Trump extended national limits on travel, work, and gatherings of more than 10 people for at least another month, and perhaps into June. Summer vacations could be on hold. This is the worst time of the year for this to happen, says Isabel Hill, director of the Commerce Department National Tourism Office. This is the season (spring and summer) when the travel and tourism industry make a significant amount of its revenue.

The global tourism industry is facing massive job and revenue losses.

The impact on travel is six or seven times greater than the 9/11 attacks, says Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, which encourages travel to and within the country and represents an industry that generates $2.6 trillion in economic output and supports 15.8 million jobs in the U.S.

With so much at stake, Congress passed a $2 trillion stimulus that couldn't have come at a more urgent time. The focus is to help those unemployed and to support businesses large and small. But questions remain: Will the aid package be enough as the country slides into a recession, and what does it mean for travelers?

Much of the tourism industry built its financial strategy around a trouble-free future, planning for eternal blue skies: open borders; high tourism demand, an $8 trillion industry that defies the ups and downs of the market.

On average, international carriers, including Delta and United Airlines, had less than two months of cash on hand to cover expenses before the coronavirus hit, according to the IATA. In contrast, Apple has enough cash to cover six years of expenses.

With much of its fleet grounded, the airlines projected revenue losses could climb to more than $250 billion. That is at least twice the $113 billion in losses the IATI predicted three weeks ago, before countries started shutting down borders.

Airlines for America (A4A), the trade group representing American and JetBlue among others, as well as UPS and FedEx, say its member companies will lose $87 billion in revenue this year and have already begun borrowing.

Airlines could benefit from several provisions of the stimulus: $425 billion from the Federal Reserve for distressed industries; $75 billion in loans, and $25 billion in direct grants, with the government taking a stake in the companies. Much of the money is conditional, it cannot be used for corporations to buy back stock, a practice that led many companies to be short of cash.

The bailout of a $100 million bill Congress passed weeks before, which provides increased unemployment insurance, paid sick leave, extended food assistance, and free testing for the virus.

This aid package is important and we want the recovery to speed up, says Dow. Most of the travel industry consists of small, mom-and-pop businesses. With small business loans we can help keep their doors open. The emergency small business loans will be available through June and would be forgiven if companies must keep their employees on the payroll.

The lodging sector, which has suffered as much as transport, with companies such as Marriott losing as much as 75 percent in revenue, is also a big recipient of the bailout. Hotels (and restaurants) can benefit from the $350 billion lending program for small businesses and from a small adjustment to a federal tax law that could save them as much as $15 billion.

But cruise companies face an uphill battle to recover. Cruises have become beleaguered poster children of the pandemic as news stories chronicle the plight of ships carrying infected passengers. At press time, Holland America's Zaandam and Rotterdam ships were finally granted permission to disembark at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after the Coast Guard balked at allowing them to dock. On March 8, 2020 the Center for Disease Control and the State Department told Americans to stop taking cruises and published a detailed explanation why those ships increase the viruss risk and impact.

The effect on the cruise business has been swift. Companies have lost $750 million in revenue since January, according to reports. Shares of the big fish (Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian) have dropped by 60 to 70 percent. Future losses will mount, and it is likely that sailings will be postponed at least until July or August, 2020.

Unlike the airlines and hotels, cruise companies are not eligible for the $500 billion in aid because they dont count as American enterprises.

Major companies locate their primary headquarters overseas, with ships flagged and incorporated in other nations. This means they pay almost no federal taxes and avoid many U.S. regulations.

The cruising industry faces more hurdles in the future. Governments may have an increased interest in illness reporting and sanitation inspections, which means more regulations, says Ross Klein, a Canadian academic at the Memorial University of Newfoundland who studies the sector.

Economists, though, are warning that few industries, et alone travel, will return to normal anytime soon.