For perhaps the first time in its dealings with Catherine Sanderson since she was hauled before her boss and treated like a schoolgirl caught cheating in her maths exam, Dixon Wilson has taken a sensible decision.
Catherine - better known here and everywhere else as Petite Anglaise, the sacked Parisian blogger - has finally received 44,000 euros by way of compensation for the loss of her job as a bilingual secretary at the accountancy firm's offices near l'Opéra.
Dixon Wilson has also had to refund Assedics, the French dole, all the unemployment benefits she received for six months after what the prud'hommes, or labour court, decreed - and the firm necessarily concedes, by renouncing the right to appeal - was her unfair dismissal.
When the story broke (drop the false modesty, M Salut!, you mean when you broke it!), and scuttled feverishly around the world, I tried my best to report the facts objectively. That was not helped by Dixon Wilson's steadfast refusal to offer a public point of view.
This does not mean that I held no view of my own, any more than I would hold no view of my own when seeking to write balanced news reports about, say, the thoroughly bad war in Iraq or quite bad Muslim attempts to deny free speech to others.
I felt then, and have written since, that Dixon Wilson took a sledgehammer to crack a nut. In so far as there was any disciplinary issue at all, it ought to have issued a mild rebuke to Catherine and tightened its own rules on what employees could and could not do in quiet moments at work.
Nothing has happened to change my mind. Dixon Wilson, having unnecessarily brought bad publicity upon itself by acting in such a heavy-handed fashion, now at the very least tacitly acknowledges that it was in the wrong - or that it would have one heck of a job persuading any higher stage of the prud'hommes process that it was not.
If your French it up to it, this offers a comprehensive account of the saga as it unfolded before the court, and the outcome. If not, this is Catehrine's own brief announcement, followed by the customary scores of comments.
Petite Anglaise - I was responsible in the early days for the rogue La which so many other reports then copied - is, I am happy to say, now a pal.
She has written with great kindnessabout my own employment mishap (maybe I should have taken that Parisian lawyer's advice and sued in the French courts, too).
But the upshot is that I can celebrate Petite's success on three levels: natural justice, solidarity and friendship. And await the first book, due out in the new year, with a great sense of anticipation.
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