McDonald chips Bill Gates land grown revealed, in fields so vast they can be seen from space - Bill Gates is the largest private farmland owner in the United States and, according to a new NBC report, his fields grow the potatoes that make McDonald's fries.

Citing data from The Land Report and from its own research, NBC states that the potatoes for McDonald's fries are grown in fields in Washington State (USA). UU.) which are so extensive that they can be seen from space.

Gates owns 269,000 acres (108,860 hectares) of agricultural land in 18 states, according to updated NBC figures, making him the largest owner of private agricultural land in the United States.

McDonald chips Bill Gates land grown revealed

Spokespersons for McDonald's and Gates have not responded immediately to request for comment.

The Land Report has previously pointed out that Bill Gates ' farmland in the U.S. has been used as a source of income. UU. they are maintained both directly and through their investment group, Cascade, recently mentioned in a New York Times investigation that reported allegations of inappropriate behavior in the workplace.

McDonald chips Bill Gates land grown revealed

The ownership of his land has been the subject of a thorough analysis after he and his wife, Melinda French Gates, announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world, with 145,000 million dollars (more than 119,000 million euros), according to Bloomberg estimates.

Melinda French Gates could become one of the richest women in the world after her divorce. TMZ was the first to report that the couple would share their assets through a "separation contract" out of court, as they do not have a prenuptial agreement in force.

McDonald chips Bill Gates land grown revealed

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The employer rejects the Government's proposals to reduce labor temporality and criticizes that it will damage employment in hospitality or agriculture

Negotiation in social dialogue to reduce the high seasonality of the Spanish labour market is complicated by the refusal of the employer to the proposals presented by the Ministry of Labour, seeking to limit the cases in which you can apply a fixed-term contract and ensure the conversion to permanent after 2 years of temporality.

The debate is based on the government's commitment to the European authorities to stop temporary work by law before the end of 2021 as part of Spain's proposals to receive European funds for economic recovery after the crisis caused by the coronavirus, after Brussels has urged the executive to take action in the face of high labor temporality, especially in the public sector.

In the last week, Labor has asked unions and employers to consider only 2 options to offer temporary contracts: for productive reasons so that companies can face peaks in demand or for organizational reasons, that is, to replace workers with the right to reserve their place in the company, in addition to eliminating contracts for work and service, with which until now it is possible to offer temporary contracts with a duration of up to 4 years.

On the other hand, the department led by the third vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has proposed that temporary contracts have a fixed duration of 6 months, which could be extended exceptionally to one year and the obligation to offer a fixed contract to interim workers who have been in the same position for 24 months without the incorporation of the employee they are replacing, a measure that has been excluded in principle from the public sector.

These proposals have provoked the rejection of the CEOE in the meeting of the social dialogue held this Thursday, according to El País, which explains that the employers have criticized that these measures will damage employment in several sectors and have demanded that the fight against temporality focus on the public sector, which has a higher rate of fixed-term and interim jobs than the private sector.

For this reason, the CEOE will present alternatives to the desk of the social dialogue that would meet the targets set by Brussels without damaging activity, or employment, especially in sectors with high dependence on temporary employment such as agriculture and hospitality, according to the journal of the Prisa Group, which highlights that the employer's critical that the proposals of the Working pose protect temporary workers to permanent contracts.

However, the representatives of the entrepreneurs consider that it is possible to take reasonable measures to reduce temporality without harming employment or the business fabric, betting on possible sectoral limits to fixed-term contracts according to the size of the company's workforce that adapts to the economic weight of sectors with greater temporality, such as catering or commerce.