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    Biden’s False Claim About McDonald’s

    by Rem Rieder Jul 24, 2020 3 minutes

    During a virtual campaign event with members of the Service Employees International Union on July 22, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden falsely said that McDonald’s required its employees to sign noncompete contracts preventing them from going to work for other fast-food restaurants such as Burger King.

    There is no evidence to support this. McDonald’s says that is not the case. And McDonald’s discontinued a related practice, barring workers from moving from one store inside the company to another, in 2017.

    It appears Biden meant to describe that practice. But he

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