Reminds me of this story of a civil servant who was told to stay home until called, fired 5 years later when they discovered he had been paid all that time without working, ordered to pay back those 5 years of wages, fought it in court for another 6 years, and in the end won 11 years of wages.

https://www.hln.be/binnenland/ambtenaar-krijgt-211-000-euro-...