“The case went around the world,” laughs Olivier Bongrand, labor law lawyer for 25 years, for the OBP Avocats firm.
And for good reason, it mixes alcohol, work parties and corporate values.
Unless there is a further appeal to the Court of Cassation, this dispute seems to have reached its conclusion.
The Paris Court of Appeal has just ordered the reinstatement of an employee dismissed for not having been “fun at work” and to award nearly 500,000 euros in compensation for the nullity of his dismissal.
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In November 2022, the Court of Cassation had already ruled in favor of the complainant, designated as “Mr. T”, indicating that he had the right not to participate in the weekend “drinks” organized at his work.
In fact, this employee, a consultant hired in 2011, was dismissed for professional inadequacy and “cultural misalignment” with respect to the “fun and pro” values advocated by the company.
He had notably criticized the organization of “seminars and weekend drinks frequently generating excessive alcohol consumption encouraged by the associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available, and by practices advocated by the associates linking promiscuity, bullying and incitement to various excesses and excesses.”
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