Thursday, March 20, 2014

Ten employees of French telecoms company Orange have committed suicide since the beginning of the year...

Ten employees of French telecoms company Orange have committed suicide since the beginning of the year, nearly as many as the whole of 2013, an organization that monitors work conditions said on Tuesday.

Labelling it a "serious alert", the Observatory for Stress and Forced Mobility said the majority of these suicides were "explicitly related to work".

Orange is now the name for what used to be known as France Telecom, a huge telecommunications firm that was hit by a wave of suicides.

The wave was at its strongest between 2008 and 2009, when 35 employees took their lives, prompting then boss Didier Lombard to step down.

The deaths triggered questions about stress and management.

The company had also been privatized in 2004, leading to major restructuring and the loss of scores of jobs.

 According to the observatory, there were 11 suicides in the group - which changed its name to Orange two years ago - in 2013. Full story...

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