Fired six months after taking his job in 2012 – while his contract was running over five years – Miguel Esteban, the former director of the Orchestre Suisse Romande (OSR) in Geneva received a compensation of 570,000 francs (€527.000), including 100,000 francs in moral damages. According to Swiss newspaper Le Temps, Esteban had asked for 1.8 million francs.