A former employee yesterday filed a defamation suit against Louis Vuitton Saipan Inc. for allegedly accusing her of stealing.<\/p>\n
The civil suit, which also contains charges of inflicting emotional distress, was filed by Leonora Angelo in the Superior Court.<\/p>\n
Angelo, represented by lawyer John Chambers, also named the company’s manager, Catherine Ada, as respondent.<\/p>\n
Angelo, who started working at the store as sales associate in August 1997, was fired late last year.<\/p>\n
The termination letter signed by Louis Vuitton’s general manager, Patrice Fontes, cited dishonesty, creating animosity, and unacceptable work ethics and intolerable behavior as the reasons for her dismissal.<\/p>\n
The documents filed in the court, however, did not cite specific instances that demonstrate the allegations.<\/p>\n
Before she was given the termination letter, Angelo said she was advised a few times to resign, and that Ada had threatened to sue her for theft if she refused to do so.<\/p>\n
Angelo did refuse to resign, prompting Ada to write a termination warning which she asked Angelo to sign.<\/p>\n
Angelo likewise refused to sign it, saying “it would have been an admission of guilt or offense which she knew she did not commit.”<\/p>\n
On Aug. 5 last year, the day before she was sent away by her supervisors, Ada called Angelo to report back to work.<\/p>\n
Upon arriving at work, Angelo found that her co-workers put locks on their personal lockers because they were supposedly informed that she had stolen something.<\/p>\n
The situation, Angelo said, gave her embarrassment and humiliation for which she is asking for damages in the amount to be determined at the trial. (MCM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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