It seems that whistleblowing isn’t necessarily a lucrative activity after all, at least in France.

Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS banker may have been paid $104 million by the United States’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for his revelations about the assistance given by the Swiss bank to help clients evade tax. But in Europe, or at least in France, the pickings are much thinner. 

A French court has just awarded Stephanie Giraud, a former marketing and communications manager for UBS, EUR 3,000 in damages for the stress and alleged harassment she experienced following her decision to blow the whistle in 2009 o...