JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Joe should see a lawyer about a wrongful termination lawsuit.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (pdf) brought to law in 1996 shields most liability for people donating food exactly like he did.
This may have been a knee-jerk reaction from the employer incorrectly assuming they could be liable if someone got sick. Though its also possible they’ve been looking for a reason to dismiss a long time employee to replace him with a cheaper one. Corporate ownership makes me leans towards the latter.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Liability if the food is bad. He was fired because the company perceives it as theft. The act does not cover that.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same reason grocery stores toss perfectly good food in locked dumpsters in lieu of donating it.
The only chain place with fresh food that donates their extra at the end of the day is Panera.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And this is exactly why by law Italian supermarkets have to donate anything approaching its sell-by date.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh fuck. We need that law in the states.
obinice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interesting, here in the UK they sell it at a discount, which greatly helps us poorer people afford food.
Ironically if it’s all donated to food banks instead, I’d never see it and would struggle more - I may be poor but I can afford food so I don’t want to take away from what others might need more than me.
The whole system is sadly broken anyway, so much food, yet so many hungry :-(
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
I worked in a grocery store that had a little pizza making section. End of the day they’d throw out a lot of pizza. Management absolutely did not want employees to grab some at the end of the day.
Well, I was friends with the guy who worked there so he’d “throw it out” into my possession. I had a lot of free pizza back then.
Nowadays there’s an app “too good to go” where you can get cheap food at the end of the day from places. Not as good as free, but like four slices of pizza for $5 isn’t bad.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
is that app your chain specific or location because i love the idea
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We’re the only super power that refuses to agree that food and water are a human right.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
“Hey! Are you bootlegging that AIR? You gotta pay for that!”
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They used to dump them in unlocked dumpsters but people figured that out and started pilfering the dumpsters. My dad, not poor at all but quite frugal/cheap, somehow heard about this and started taking me as a kid to go dumpster diving with him. It was crazy the amount of food we brought home for those couple years before places started locking the dumpsters. And there were a lot of people driving up and going through them just like us.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was an entire documentary about people dumpster diving at grocery stores for free food.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t really consider the reason the company gave for the dismissal. Though it occurs to me now that any incident where someone loses their job due to donating food nearing expiry could be plausibly written up as thievery by the company doing the firing.
Which is a nuance that might be worth chatting to a lawyer about.