‘An insult to my culture’, but the Fair Work Commission confirmed the measure
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an appeal lodged by Italian chef Davide Tamburella, who was fired from a restaurant in Queensland, Australia, for refusing to add pineapple to his pizza, citing the fact that, in his opinion, it was “an insult to his culture”. The Guardian writes it.
According to what the Fair Work Commission learned, Tamburella had refused for the third time to carry out this order, instead suggesting to the restaurant owner to “check how important it is for Italians not to put pineapple on pizza”.
Tamburella claimed that his dismissal occurred in violation of the Fair Work Act, stating that the decision was motivated, in part, by an accident at work: the man had in fact hit a metal handrail, breaking his right hand in two places, but the commissioner of the Fair Work Commission, Jennifer Hunt, added that the appeal was submitted too late and that the conditions for it to constitute “exceptional circumstances” did not exist.
In July the lease expired and so the place closed. Today Tamburella works in a new Italian restaurant, and pineapple does not exist on its menu.
