McDonald's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice

[Texacon]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7080767/McDonalds-wrong-to-fire-worker-over-cheese-slice.html




Glad we don't have this kind of system in the US.

"The dismissal was too severe a measure," the district court in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Netherlands, said in a written judgment.

"It is just a slice of cheese."

A court can overturn a firing when an employee steals?  Wow!

A written warning would have been a more appropriate punishment, said the court, which ordered the fast-food chain to pay the worker the salary for the remaining five months of her contract - a total of 4,265.47 euros (£3,660).

They had to pay back pay?!  Wow!!

The decision came days after the fast-food chain reported an increase in net profits by almost 25 per cent in the last quarter of 2009.

And WHY is that even important?

KC

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

A contract?

To work in ast food?

 

[JohnnyReb]

Hey, it's Europe. You don't hire'em, you adopt'em.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Hey, it's Europe. You don't hire'em, you adopt'em.

Even my bunlets are on notice that they can be let go at any time without prior cause.

[NHSparky]

£3,660

Which, at current exchange rates, comes out to $5909, or $1080 per month.

DUmmies are lining up for these jobs, just so they can put a 5-cent slice of cheese on a burger and then sit on their asses for a few months.

[DefiantSix]

<=== waiting for Øbummer to come out and say that "McDonalds acted stupidly", and then invite the fired employee and Ronald McDonald to the White House for a beer summit, to figure out which was the bigger clown...