FRANCE : HP TO PAY $4Mil IN DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSALS

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Date: Thursday October 2, 2008 12:48:41 pm
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    http://www.evertiq.com/news/read.do?news=12445
    HP to pay €2.3 million in damages for wrongful dismissals
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    former employees at HP’s French site on Isle-d’Abeau have gained
    victory in a lawsuit and were awarded €2.3 million in damages for
    wrongful dismissals.The dismissals followed the 2002 acquisition of the
    factory from EMS-provider Sanmina-SCI. The court decision states that
    HP is to pay each complainant €7.000 in damages for moral injury and a
    further €1,000 under Article 700 of the French ‘Nouveau Code de
    Procédure Civil’. That means that HP is to pay €2,336,000 in damages –
    292 former employees were unfairly dismissed the court ruling stated,
    reports pcworld.
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