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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 (US$58,800), tantamount to a year’s salary, following her
dismissal last April for alleged misconduct.
Sanderson’s blog about daily
life built up a sizeable 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.
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.
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.
AFP
“I always felt that my
dismissal was an unnecessarily harsh sanction and clearly the
prud’hommes shared my view,”she said.
 --AFP
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