McDonald’s to hire thousands of unemployed people

McDonald’s is set to recruit up to 6,000 long-term unemployed people this year as part of a government jobs scheme.

The fast-food giant will extend a Local Employment Partnership (LEP) pilot scheme to all 1,200 restaurants. Currently around 100 of its 72,000-strong workforce are participating in the scheme, with half of those given work trials over the past three months subsequently hired.