McDonald’s worker who applied sauce to burgers loses €60k repetitive strain claim

A McDonald’s employee, who had to apply hundreds of dollops of mustard, ketchup and brown sauce to burgers on a daily basis, has lost a €60,000 damages claim against the company for an alleged repetitive strain injury.

Barrister Paul Henry O’Neill, counsel for Persion Restaurants Limited, told Judge Sinead Ni Chulachain in the Circuit Civil Court that such a similar claim could not be traced in any of McDonald’s 1,500 restaurants throughout Ireland and the UK.

Mr O’Neill, who appeared with Donough Shaffrey of Shaffrey Solicitors, Cornelscourt, Dublin, said research had failed to reveal a similar claim in the company’s 38,000 global outlets.

Paulina Wojtowicz, of The Court, Belgard Heights, Tallaght, who was described as one of McDonald’s best workers, claimed she had been required to repeatedly squirt dressings onto burger after burger as part of a production assembly line at the company’s Kylemore Road outlet.

Wojtowicz (31) described the task as excessive,…