This was the solution adopted by the Labour Division of the
French Supreme Court in the case of an employee who had worked for
a company for more than 22 years, during which time she had always
given her employer satisfaction.
This employee, who was initially hired in 1996 as a secretary,
had even been promoted to marketing assistant in 2010.
Despite her previously impeccable career record, the employee was
notified of her dismissal for gross misconduct on 2 May 2018, a
dismissal that she contested by bringing an action before the
industrial tribunal, seeking to have it requalified as a dismissal
without real and serious cause.
Dismissed by the Paris Court of Appeal, the employee appealed to
the French Supreme Court, arguing in particular that, as she was
highly regarded by her superiors for the quality of her work and
her relations with her superiors and colleagues, and had never been
the subject of the slightest reproach in her twenty-two-year
career, she
