Fired BNP Banker Who Won €4.5 Million Must Now Give It Back
- French top court overturns award, pointing to parallel UK suit
- Banker has already won much smaller payout in London tribunal
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A BNP Paribas SA banker who won about €4.5 million ($4.9 million) in a Paris unfair-dismissal case was told by judges he can’t keep the money because he’d already used similar arguments to get a much smaller payout in a London tribunal.
France’s top court made the ruling last week after seeking advice from European Union judges. The judgment reverses Bertrand Lavigne’s 2019 win at the Paris court of appeals and brings to a close a decade of proceedings in France.