# Corporate donation brings the sack?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/07/12/corporate-donation-brings-sack/
- Published: 2000-07-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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