The Working Lunch

Episode 227: Restaurant Brands International Commits to Net-Zero Emissions


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Restaurant Brands International took a huge industry-leading role in the sustainability space with their announcement that they have set substantial new climate-related targets on greenhouse gas emissions, pledging to cut their emissions in half by 2030 and be net-zero by 2050. We are visited by the team that led this effort - Becky Hall, Director of Global Sustainability & Natalie Pecile, Senior Manager of Sustainability to talk to us about the company’s journey down this road and, more importantly, how and why they got here. And the President’s controversial vaccine-mandate policy is still front of mind for employers but uncertainty surrounds what the final rules will look like. To help us sort it out, we are joined once again by Ed Egee, Vice President for Government Relations & Workforce Development at the National Retail Federation who is going to walk us through where we are in the final rule-making process and what operators can expect to see in the next few weeks. And a record 4.3 million workers quit - yes quit - their jobs in August with the highest percentage of those coming in the restaurant and retail sector. We’ll talk about the ramifications of that as well as the road ahead. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.
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