The McResource website, McDonald's Corp.'s website that give advice on how its employees manage their budget, has been shut down Thursday, December 26 after generating negative publicity, according to MSN News.

According to reports, the McResource website has been under heavy criticisms for giving its employees unrealistic budget advice and life guidance.

Critics of the program said that the program has been giving guidance and advice that were not attuned to McDonald's workers' pay.

McDonald's said that it has instructed its website vendor to take it down. The website was run by a third party company and was also reported to have discouraged workers from eating fast food, the report said.

"Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary," McDonald's said in a statement.

Media and labor groups have criticized the website early this year and said that the website's content were based on workers who hold two jobs. It also failed to include, for example, heating costs in its advice, or it gave outright tips for a personal fitness trainer, the report said.

The "Low Pay is Not Okay" campaign was one of the groups that criticized McDonald's McResource program. It was responsible strikes and rallies by fast food workers and labor organizers this month that demanded better pay. The organizers are hoping to build public support for fast food workers and get the federal government to raise the $7.5 minimum wage. The annual minimum wage for full time work in a fast food is $15,000.

McDonald's, the world's largest hamburger chain, was again embarrassed after CNBC reported that the McResource website advised its employees to refrain from eating fast food to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

McDonald's said that although it has shut down its website, it still plans to continue its service to its employees. It will provide its workers an internal telephone help line to access work-life help resources.