Accounting firm's secretary who was sacked for writing a blog wins her tribunal case
Accountancy Age, 30 Mar 2007
A secretary sacked from an accountancy firm for writing a blog has won her tribunal case for unfair dismissal.
Catherine Sanderson was sacked from the Paris office of accountants Dixon Wilson after the firm claimed her blog, petiteanglaise.com , had brought its reputation into disrepute.
The blog was written under a pseudonym about her life in the French capital, and rarely mentioned work, she claimed.
A Paris tribunal in Paris upheld her complaint and awarded Sanderson €44,000 (£29,900) damages – equivalent to a year's wages - plus legal costs. Dixon Wilson will also have to repay the French government unemployment benefit she claimed after her dismissal, reported The Guardian.
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