NEW YORK — McDonald's says it is cutting about 225 corporate jobs as part of a push intended to revitalize its flagging business.

The world's biggest hamburger chain says the cuts include about 135 positions at its corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, where it says it has about 2,100 employees. An additional 90 positions are being cut overseas, the company said. It says employees were notified last month.

The move comes as McDonald's Corp. CEO Steve Easterbrook has said he will target $300 million in cost cuts by 2017 and reorganize the company so it can react more quickly to the changing fast-food industry.

NEW YORK — The hotel industry is objecting to the proposed combination of travel booking sites Expedia and Orbitz, saying that the deal would mean higher prices for vacationers and larger fees for hotel owners.“We believe this transaction and the resulting consolidation of the online travel marketplace will result in significant negative consequences, particularly for consumers, but also for the large number of our members who are small business owners and franchised properties,” Katherine Lugar, CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said in a statement Thursday.The hotel trade group said the deal would “severely reduce consumer choice.” It also noted that Expedia charges hotels, on average, 11 percent higher commissions than Orbitz.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The retailer Abercrombie & Fitch plans to discontinue on-call shifts in New York this year, dropping a requirement for employees to remain available in case they're called to work on short notice, the company confirmed Thursday.It was one of 13 major retailers sent letters in April by the New York Attorney General's Office, which questioned the short-notice shifts and possible violations of the state requirement to pay hourly staff for at least four hours when they report for work.Abercrombie Senior Vice President Robert Bostrom said in a letter Wednesday that beginning in September, the New Albany, Ohio-based company will discontinue call-in shift scheduling in New York by year's end, with a long-term goal of ending it nationally.