PwC sued for £40m by former employee
A former PwC accountant, Mihaela Popa, has begun a record £40 million claim against the big 4 firm. Having lost an earlier tribunal against them in 2007, she is now claiming that the company sabotaged her career.
Miss Popa, a 31 year-old Romanian, resigned from her £41,000 a year job as a forensic accountant at PwC in November 2006 after suffering a nervous breakdown. Afler leaving PwC she worked for UBS and …
A former PwC accountant, Mihaela Popa, has begun a record £40 million claim against the big 4 firm. Having lost an earlier tribunal against them in 2007, she is now claiming that the company sabotaged her career.
Miss Popa, a 31 year-old Romanian, resigned from her £41,000 a year job as a forensic accountant at PwC in November 2006 after suffering a nervous breakdown. Afler leaving PwC she worked for UBS and Credit Suisse, but was made redundant by both reports the Telegraph. She now claims that PwC were to blame for sabotaging her career prospects through its references and influence on her new employers.
PwC strenuously denies the allegations and says that Popa, who has also sued UBS and Credit Suisse over her redundancies, is a “vexatious litigant”.
The £40m claim for compensation relates to loss of earnings and hurt feelings and is the highest amount ever claimed in such a dispute. That’s a lot of hurt feelings by our calculation.
Accountant claims £40m from PricewaterhouseCoopers [Telegraph]
