A climate researcher who was fired from his job for refusing to take a flight back from a work trip has been awarded compensation in court for unfair dismissal. Gianluca Grimalda has been reducing his air travel since 2010. But in 2023, his employer, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Germany, terminated […]
Well, if he worked during the trip, why fire him? Was it that much more expensive to travel slowly?
Because he was supposed to be back in the office at a certain point and was unable to make it without flying. That was agreed to months earlier and without the delays it would have been possible for him to slow travel back.