{"id":644311,"date":"2010-01-26T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001297"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:09:22","slug":"court-to-mcds-its-wrong-to-fire-someone-over-a-slice-of-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/644311","title":{"rendered":"Court to McD&#8217;s: It&#8217;s Wrong To Fire Someone Over A Slice Of Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/1-26-2010%204-06-20%20PM-thumb-250x221-36372.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A McDonald&#8217;s worker from the Netherlands was fired after she gave a cheeseburger to a colleague who only paid for a hamburger. A court has found that this is not a good enough reason to fire someone.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The dismissal was too severe a measure,&#8221; the district court in Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands said in a written judgment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is just a slice of cheese.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> It then ordered the company to pay $6,006.69, the salary she would have earned during the last 5 months of her contract. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s maintains that she broke the rules by giving free gifts to friends, family or coworkers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5i0pkHqjJ6pryrV_V4kLcd3-GXiaw\">McDonald&#8217;s in a pickle over cheese slice firing<\/a> [AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A McDonald&#8217;s worker from the Netherlands was fired after she gave a cheeseburger to a colleague who only paid for a hamburger. A court has found that this is not a good enough reason to fire someone. The AFP reports: &#8220;The dismissal was too severe a measure,&#8221; the district court in Leeuwarden in the north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HC7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}