Radio-Canada will defend itself when it comes time before the courts. This is the state company’s response to a lawsuit filed against it by Pascal Nadeau, the former head of Téléjournal Weekend.
Posted yesterday at 3:31 pm.
In an email sent to PressMarc Pichette, Radio-Canada’s senior director, promotion and public relations, indicates that management has “taken good notice of the lawsuit filed in Superior Court, which is in addition to other actions already taken by Ms. Nadeau.”
It therefore intends to resolve the dispute between Radio-Canada and Pascal Nadeau through the courts. According to the suit filed in the Superior Court, Smt.me Nadeau is initially claiming $250,000 from the public broadcaster as compensation for moral damages caused by the state-owned company’s “abusive, illegal and wrongful” conduct in connection with his retirement in August 2021.
She is also claiming punitive damages in the amount of $100,000 for “unlawful and willful invasion of her fundamental rights to protect her honor, dignity and reputation.”
In an August 2021 interview with our colleague Richard Therrien the sun, Pascale Nadeau revealed what she believed to be the real reasons for her departure. She said she was suspended without pay for a month in February 2021 after an employee complained about comments she made on the set of a telejournal. Here’s a question about an anonymous rebuttal regarding an antenna head made by a third party on behalf of other people.
Radio-Canada news director Luce Julian has always denied that the retirement was a constructive dismissal, Ms.me Nadeau in an interview at the sun.
