Société Générale’s Zeina Bignier loses case against being axed
Zeina, voted woman of the year in 2006 at the company, was dismissed after colleagues said she was a disrespectful control freak
Paris — An executive who was voted woman of the year at Société Générale lost a lawsuit where she was seeking €5.2m. Zeina was dismissed after colleagues accused her of being a disrespectful control freak and her bosses decided she was unfit for her management role. Bignier’s demands were dismissed by judges at the Paris employment tribunal on Thursday. Bignier says she was harassed by her managers and compliance officers and then fired out of the blue in 2016. The former SocGen executive argues she is still suffering from burnout three years after her dismissal. A 21-year-employee at the Paris-based bank, Bignier was named woman of the year in 2006. In the early 2000s, she set up and led a unit focusing on public-sector origination and worked on restructuring the Greek debt. Representatives for SocGen declined to immediately comment on the ruling. Valerie Meimoun-Hayat, a lawyer for Bignier, did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment. A court official read out the res...
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