‘Round one to petite anglaise!’
p2pnet.net news:- “Paris has been my home for a decade,” posted British secretary Catherine Sanderson on her blog petite anglaise, last year.
She went on, “After living ‘in sin’ for 8 years, I left my partner for a man I met on my blog. I now live alone with my daughter Tadpole; her daddy, Mr Frog, lives nearby.”
But, in April she was, “called in by superiors at the Paris office of British accounting firm Dixon Wilson and told she was being dismissed for gross misconduct”.
Now, “A British woman sacked for writing a personal blog has won a tribunal against the company that fired her,” says The Guardian.
And in her blog, “I won,” shouts Sanderson.
“A year’s salary, plus costs. I will only get this compensation if my ex-employer does not lodge an appeal (they will have one month in which to do so once the written version of the decision is published in about a fortnight’s time). But right now, the principle is enough for me. Round one to petite anglaise!”
Also See:
last year – Secretary fired for blog posts, July 19, 2006
The Guardian – Briton sacked for writing Paris blog wins tribunal case, March 30, 2007
blog – result, March 30, 2007
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