McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the company said in an e-mailed statement.
These are minimum wage jobs and it shows that there are plenty of people willing to work, if they could find jobs. But with minimum wage laws, instead of companies having the opportunity to bid for these people at lower wages, the job seekers are shut out of the labor market.
It's simple supply and demand economics. There are x number of jobs available at the minimum wage, if the number of those willing to work at that wage exceeds the number of jobs available at the minimum wage, then some will not be able to find jobs. Market wages, as opposed to government controlled lower bound wages, means more firms will be able to bid for workers, until the market clears.
No one is forcing anyone to work at any specific wage. At a market clearing wage, those that want to work at the market rate will be able to do so, and given that McDonald's had to turn away close to a million applicants, it suggests that the minimum wage is causing severe unemployment.