You’ll be able to’t get fired as a result of an organization thinks you are not “humorous” sufficient.

Frédéric Soltan I Getty Pictures The Court docket of Cassation in Paris.

No less than, that is in accordance with France’s highest court docket, the Court docket of Cassation, which dominated earlier this month {that a} man fired for not eager to take part in sure firm actions billed as a part of their “enjoyable tradition” was wrongfully fired The Washington Submit.

The person’s legal professionals mentioned their consumer was not thought-about “humorous” for refusing to attend firm occasions involving giant portions of alcohol. The person additionally claimed a piece tradition by which folks engaged in actions akin to mimicking sexual acts, sharing beds with different workers at work occasions, and being given impolite nicknames by the outlet.

A Google translation of the court docket paperwork characterised these acts as “practices advocated by workers that affiliate promiscuity, bullying and incitement with numerous excesses.”

The choice says the person was fired in March 2015 as a result of he did not embrace the corporate’s “enjoyable” tradition (dubbed “skilled incompetence”) and had a extra inflexible persona, the paperwork say.

The corporate in query is Cubik Companions, a administration consultancy. It didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

France is thought for its pro-worker labor legal guidelines and jokes about how inconceivable it’s to get fired there. That is typically true of different nations in Europe, together with Eire, the place Elon Musk’s Twitter has already confronted an injunction over the firing of an area govt.

In that case, the court docket dominated that firing an worker for not partaking within the actions in query constitutes a violation of “his freedom of expression” and that it’s a “elementary freedom” to not have interaction in any sort of social exercise.

The fired worker had demanded over $400,000, which the Paris Court docket of Appeals rejected final yr. That call partially overturned the court docket’s refusal, ordered the corporate to pay the previous worker €3,000 and mentioned it will contemplate his compensation declare in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, insiders mentioned.