McDonald’s Joins Glaxo in Giving Jobs Boost to Post-Brexit U.K.
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An employee delivers a tray of food and beverages to a customer's table inside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Manchester, U.K.
Photographer: Paul Thomas/BloombergMcDonald’s Corp. will create more than 5,000 new jobs in the U.K. by the end of 2017, joining GlaxoSmithKline Plc in a vow to bolster British employment following the nation’s historic vote to leave the European Union.
The new jobs at McDonald’s will add to the 8,000 that the burger chain announced in 2014, bringing the company’s British workforce to more than 110,000, Paul Pomroy, chief executive officer of McDonald’s U.K., said in a statement Wednesday. Greg Clark, secretary of state for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, called the McDonald’s announcement “great news for the U.K. economy.”