Project hosts clash over ‘boring’ employees’ right to skip out on work drinks: ‘We should be paid!’

Project hosts clash over the right of ‘boring’ employees to skip out on work drinks after a worker was sacked for not taking part in ‘fun’ office activities: ‘We should be paid!’

A French man was sacked for refusing to attend ‘fun’ work functions like drinks

He then took his employer to court and ‘won the right to be boring’

The Project panel was divided over the issue of compulsory work cocktails

By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 7:23 a.m. EST, November 27, 2022 | Updated: 10:45 a.m. EST, November 27, 2022

The hosts of The Project have butted heads over the etiquette of attending after-work social functions and whether employees are still on the clock.

The debate on Sunday night’s program was sparked after a segment discussing a French citizen who took his employer to court after he was sacked for not taking part in ‘fun’ office activities.

A Paris court ruled the man, known only as ‘Mr T’, was within his rights to refuse invites to after-hours events including weekend drinks and he was rewarded $5,000 in compensation, though he also intended to sue.

The man’s mini-uprising caused The Project’s Hamish MacDonald to label him ‘an absolute bore’ but other panelists weren’t so quick to agree.

Hamish MacDonald (left) was all for the work drink tradition but Rachel Corbett (right) said they should be avoided at all costs