Five suicides in ten days at France Telecom...

Five employees of France Telecom (FT) have committed suicide in the past 10 days, a union official said, rekindling memories of a spate of suicides that rocked the company last year.

The official said 23 FT employees had now killed themselves this year, compared with 19 in 2009. The rate this year is slightly ahead of the French average of 17 suicides per 100,000 people in 2006, according to World Health Organization figures. France Telecom has 181,000 employees, with 100,000 in France.

"There have been five suicides at France Telecom in the past 10 days, committed outside the workplace," said Sebastien Crozier of the CFE-CGC/UNSA union. More...

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