PARIS (AFP) - A British secretary sacked for blogging on the job under the pseudonym of "La Petite Anglaise" has won a compensation claim case against the Paris office of British accounting firm Dixon Wilson. A Paris labour tribunal, or "prud'hommes", ruled on Thursday that the firm pay Catherine Sanderson, 34, 44,000 euros (58,800 US dollars), tantamount to a year's salary, following her dismissal last April for alleged misconduct. Sanderson's blog about daily life built up a size able international following, with many people reading her diary-style accounts about work, relationships and the travails of single-motherhood. "I'm so relieved that good sense has prevailed," Sanderson told AFP on Friday.Sanderson said managers had discovered from reading the blog that on two occasions she had lied about having nanny problems to take the afternoon off. They also objected to her using the computer in office hours to write the blog. "I always felt that my dismissal was an unnecessarily harsh sanction and clearly the prud'hommes shared my view,"she said. Dixon Wilson, which offers tax and financial advice to private clients in Britain and France, refused to comment on Friday. The company has a month to appeal.
The reasons behind the tribunal's decision in the case, one of the first of its kind in France, will be released in two weeks. How can an American Supreme Court Justice ever consider using legal decisions from another country as Justice Ginsberg and a few other justices have explored the possibilities.
Case and point, he is why liberalism is mental illness. The fired individual is being paid a salary as a secretary, for a company which offers tax and financial advice to clients. She is blogging instead, on the employer's dime, and laughing at... how she is getting over the boss about lying to them for time off.
I would appeal, and hope that the lower court were a mirror of the 9th district court in California.
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