Wednesday 10 June 2020

As More And More People Are Returning To Work After Lock-down,

here is a question,


do you find your work boring? if the answer is yes, then sue for damages! it worked for Frederic Desnard, in 2016, Frederic Desnard made international news headlines for suing French perfumery Interparfum for $400,000 for making him work a boring job that at one point made him suffer an epileptic fit and left him feeling depressed. He also claimed that the company signed him off work for several months, and later used his prolonged absence as an excuse to fire him in 2014, fast forward to last week, after four years of litigation, 48-year-old Desnard won his case, amazingly Paris’s appeals court ruled that Frederic Desnard suffered from “bore out”, which is technically the opposite of burnout, where an employee is overworked. The former manager’s lawyer claimed that the complete lack of stimulation at work had left the man feeling “destroyed” and “ashamed”, even triggering an epileptic fit when he was driving, “I went into depression,” Desnard told AFP in 2016. “I was ashamed to be paid to do nothing. The worse part of it was denying this suffering.”after four years of litigation, he was awarded compensation of $45,000, not as much as claimed, but still he won! what was originally considered a joke among law experts has now become the first such verdict of its kind in France, and will likely be cited as a precedent in future cases. Suing employers for lack of work or boredom may actually become a thing in the near future, so how do companies guard themselves from this most dangerous condition which must be hell for the sufferer?


No comments: