Overview
- The Conseil de prud’hommes de Paris issued its decision on 27 November, reported on 12 December, awarding about €230,000 to Bertrand Renard and €220,000 to Arielle Boulin-Prat.
- Judges reclassified their many fixed-term contracts into full-time permanent contracts dating to 1975 for Renard and 1986 for Boulin-Prat, and declared the dismissal null.
- The court found age-based discrimination and a disloyal execution of the employment relationship, granting each €10,000 for a brutal and humiliating termination.
- The pair contested their 2022 departures after 47 and 36 years on the show, alleging a forced exit tied to refusal to convert CDDs to a CDI and a sharp pay cut, while the broadcaster cited their rejection of a shift to weekend broadcasts.
- The program moved to weekends in 2022 and was taken off the air in 2024 after roughly half a century of broadcasts.