Can you get fired over a slice of cheese? Apparently so, if you work at McDonald’s! A McDonald's outlet in the Netherlands was wrong to sack an employee for giving a co-worker a piece of cheese on a hamburger or junior burger(burger without cheese), a court has ruled.
The waitress' fired last March after she sold a hamburger or junior-burger ( a burger without a cheese) 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. The fired employee sued, and won:
The fast-food chain had argued that the waitress – who was employed at a branch in the northern town of Lemmer – had broken staff rules prohibiting free gifts to family, friends or colleagues. But the court said in its written judgement: "The dismissal was too severe a measure. It is just a slice of cheese," reports AFP news agency.
McDonald's was ordered to pay the former employee more than €4,200 or approx. USD$5,900, £3,660 for the last five months of her contract. Damn! Lucky...
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