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Corporate donation brings the sack?

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 12 July 2000 | News

A French employee of McDonalds told an industrial tribunal yesterday that “he had been unjustly sacked for giving his free meal tickets to a beggar.” However, the franchise manager argued “I’ve been made out to be a sort of public executioner ready to sack people for committing charity.”

Read France hails burger handout hero by Paul Webster in The Guardian.

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Howard Lake

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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