Burnout | Worker wins £36k payout due to 'boredom'

Employees may be awarded payouts for numerous reasons, for example they may have faced bullying in the workplace or may have been fired for unjustified or illegal reasons.

However, the reason one employee has been offered a payout may come as a surprise to many.

According to the Daily Mail, a worker at a Paris-based perfume company has been awarded £36,000 after his job was considered too monotonous that he suffered from extreme ‘bore-out’.

Frédéric Desnard, who worked as a manager at Interparfum until 2015, initially tried to sue the company for £550,000 because his job was so dull that it drove him to depression and forced him to quit.