British Secretary Tests French Law After Being Fired Over Blog
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A 33-year-old British secretary has launched a test case before a French employment tribunal after being sacked from her company for writing a personal Internet blog about her day-to-day life in Paris.More here.
The blog -- written under the pseudonym "La Petite Anglaise" -- has built up a sizeable international following over the last two years, with up to 3,000 people a day reading diary-style accounts about work, relationships and the travails of single-motherhood.
But in April Catherine -- she refuses to give her family name -- was called in by superiors at the Paris office of British accounting firm Dixon Wilson and told she was being dismissed for gross misconduct.
posted by Fergie @ 7/18/2006 05:30:00 AM
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