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France’s leading phone and internet provider Orange was found guilty Friday of a string of employee suicides and its former CEO was sentenced to prison, in a landmark ruling against a major European telecommunications player.
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Orange was ordered to pay around 3.5 million euros (£3 million) in fines and damages to scores of families, employees and others party to the case, over suicides and other problems in the 2000s while the company was shedding thousands of jobs.
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Orange employee Sebastien Crozier choked up after the verdict. “We remember them, » said Crozier, of the CFE-CGC trade union. “I saw one of my colleagues die, she threw herself out of a fifth floor window.”
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La CFE-CGC se félicite du désaveu cinglant infligé à la Direction et à la CFDT par les personnels d’Orange. La Direction a proposé un accord QVCT (Qualité de Vie et Conditions de Travail) de 70 pages, inconsistant. La quantité ne se substituant jamais à la qualité. Ironie suprême, même l’IA interne « Dinootoo » l’analyse comme de […]