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Ikea Charged with Spying on Employees in France
December 16,
2013 by in Furniture Retailing, Industry, Legal 
Home furnishings giant Ikea is in a legal wrangling in France where it is accused of spying on employees and consumers.
Virginie Paulin’s voice still trembles when she recounts how she was fired from what she considered her dream job at Ikea in France.
“I felt total incomprehension, I was stunned,” she said. As a 12-year employee of the Swedish home furnishings group, Ms. Paulin had risen to become deputy director of communications and merchandising for Ikea’s two dozen stores across France.
But then she was forced out after a year’s medical absence — and after what was subsequently revealed to be an investigation of her by Ikea’s French headquarters, which suspected she was not as sick as she had said. The company was said to have provided a private detective with her Social Security number, personal cellphone number, bank account details and other personal data.
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Source: The New York Times