Wednesday, January 27, 2010

McDonald's fires employee over cheese slice

A McDonald's outlet in the Netherlands was wrong to sack an employee for giving a colleague a piece of cheese on a hamburger, a court has ruled.

The waitress was fired last March after she sold a hamburger to a co-worker who then asked for cheese, which she added.

The fast-food chain argued this turned the hamburger into a cheeseburger, and so she should have charged more.

But Leeuwarden district court ruled a written warning would have been more appropriate...

...the court said in its written judgement: "The dismissal was too severe a measure. It is just a slice of cheese,"


Read more here.

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