"I'm proud to have given food": an airport employee fired for offering unsold sandwiches to homeless people

A Starbucks employee located at Marseille-Provence airport was dismissed for "heavy misconduct", after distributing out-of-date and unsold sandwiches to homeless people. Given the requirements for product traceability and health safety, such a practice does not respect the French legislative framework. According to specialists in the sector interviewed by Marianne, however, this reason is considered insufficient in the face of food waste and cit…

This former employee of the Starbucks at Marseille airport (Bouches-du-Rhône) has been dismissed for giving unsold goods to homeless people and will seize the workers with three of his former colleagues, who were fired for the same reason.

On the one hand, food to be discarded because soon expired. On the other hand, an employee who recovers them to give them to the homeless at Marseille-Provence airport. He has just been fired like three of his colleagues.

Four employees of Starbucks and Ready to Eat signs, located at Marseille-Provence airport in Marignane (Bouches-du-Rhône), were fired for giving unsold sandwiches to homeless people.

Four employees of food chains located at Marseille airport have been dismissed for "serious misconduct", while they have been redistributed food unsold for 30 years without hiding. They have seized the workers.

At the end of his service, he collected the unsold sandwiches and pastries of the Starbucks and Ready-to-Manger franchises, owned by the SSP group. These products, close to their consumption deadline, were promised to be destroyed. He preferred to hand them over to homeless people installed in the airport. "I started with the homeless, we all know them. There are some who have been there for more than 20 years," he declared in France 3 Provence-…