Man awarded €210,400 for wrongful dismissal for taking unsellable sausages

The court awarded a 59-year-old man over 210,000 euros in compensation for wrongful dismissal from the meat company where he had worked for 36 years. Gepo from Nieuw-Vennep fired him with immediate effect for theft after finding out he took a bag full of unsellable sausages home. But according to employees, that was standard practice for years. The court in Haarlem ruled that the summary dismissal was far too strict.