French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides

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French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides
Published Monday, May 6, 2019 | 12:33 a.m.

PARIS (AP) — The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees over a three-year span at France's main telephone and internet company.

A Paris court on Monday begins a long-awaited trial accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges. The company — then called France Telecom — was undergoing job cuts and modernization efforts at the time of the suicides a decade ago.

On trial are the former president of France Telecom, Didier Lombard, former human resources director Olivier Barberot and former deputy executive director Louis-Pierre Wenes. It's the largest trial to date in France for moral harassment on a company-wide scale, and is expected to last two months.

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