Restructuring suspended at suicide plagued France Télécom...

France Telecom, the third-largest phone company in Europe, announced tonight that it had suspended a controversial reorganisation blamed for a spate of staff suicides.

The company said the decision had been taken during the course of negotiations with unions. Several hundred compulsory internal transfers – either of role or of location – have already been frozen.

But now all changes other than those deemed absolutely essential would be put on hold, workers' representatives said they had been told. The CGT union welcomed "a single measure which must be followed by many others". More...

Don't miss:

1. Another suicide at France Télécom, the 25th...
2. Why are France Télécom employees committing suicide?
3. Are the French a happy people?