While many businesses close, McDonald's expands. The multinational, a true symbol, loved and hated, of fast food, is preparing to open one hundred new restaurants in Italy starting from today until 2015, thus creating three thousand new jobs for young people between 18 and 29 years old, with average contracts lasting 36 months. At least half of the workers, then, should be hired in the central-southern regions of our country.
The first round of hiring should start as early as 2013 and 1.100 new employees will be trained, who will thus join the already large group of McDonald's employees in Italy, a group which, to date, it has 16.700 employees, 94% of whom with stable contracts (71% with a permanent contract and 23% with an apprenticeship contract).
And it is above all interesting to note how, in a moment of intense crisis, with unemployment levels, especially among the youth, which reach hitherto unexplored peaks, the prospect of contracts of this type becomes particularly attractive. This is demonstrated by the case of Rubano, a small town in the Veneto region where, after the announcement that the local McDonald's office was looking for 20 new employees, over one hundred curricula from aspiring employees were received within a single day.
As stated by the CEO of McDonald's Italy Roberto Masi, "McDonald's represents today, in a situation where employment opportunities for young people are few and very often precarious, the opportunity to enter the world of work with a stable contract and with the possibility of growth".
