German Firm Withdraws Threat to Fire Employees in Iran - WSJ.com: Via The Wall Street Journal/WSJ.
Knauf Gips KG, a German building materials company that last week told its employees in Iran they would be fired if they participated in political demonstrations, withdrew the threat on Friday after The Wall Street Journal published an article about the policy.
"Without question, the formulation of the July 21, 2009 letter from Knauf Iran P.J.S.C. was unfortunate and needs to be corrected," Knauf Executive Board Chairman Manfred Grundke said in a statement.
The letter in question, written by Isabel Knauf, a member of the company's founding family who helps oversee its Iranian business, said: "If anybody from our company gets caught demonstrating against the current government, he or she will be immediately dismissed."
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