He is known as the first employee dismissed for boycotting the plane. Gianluca Grimalda, an Italian researcher in social psychology, had refused to take a flight to return from a scientific mission in Papua New Guinea, in order to reduce his greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, he had traveled 28,000 kilometers by train, cargo, ferry and car, a trip of sixty-two days across 16 countries, to join the German city of Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein), where he worked. This decision cost him his post at the Institute for the World Economy (IFW).
Readacted in October 2023, the 53 -year -old scientist initiated a legal action for abusive dismissal. After losing at first instance, he has just obtained a “Half there”he welcomes himself. On January 10, Gianluca Grimalda and his former employer accepted the agreement proposed by the Kiel Labor Court: the Institute will compensate the researcher, but without rehiring him, due to a “Incompatibility of ideological convictions of the parties”. The exact amount of the starting indemnity has not been disclosed, a confidentiality agreement obliges, but Gianluca Grimalda has already announced that it would pay part – 75,000 euros – to environmental associations.
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