Government intervenes to stop the spate of 23 suicides in 18 months on Orange

The French Government, through its Employment Minister Xavier Darcos, today pleaded to the president of France Telecom, Didier Lombard, to try to stem the tide of suicides telecommunications operator's employees, who number 23 in the last year and a half .

Darcos, who received Lombard in his Ministry, he asked the company to take better account of "personal status" of their employees in the organization of work, the image of the agreements on the issue of companies have signed on as the electricity EDF and automobile manufacturer Renault.

The Job holder told reporters that we need a human resources management "appropriate, offering visibility to employees about their career development.

The president of France Telecom, which said that the most urgent is to "control the phenomenon of contagion" of suicides, announced the creation of a call center with psychologists outside the company and will address "without taboo" on Friday negotiations with unions on stress.

To break the "vicious spiral movement" of suicides, Lombard said suspending until October 31 since all the changes of their workers, who have been able to emerge as triggers in the decision by some employees take their own lives .

The long succession of suicides in the operator-in which the state retains 27% of the capital was about to have a new chapter yesterday when a senior agency Metz was found lifeless by other colleagues after having eaten a cocktail of barbiturates.

According to the first elements, the gesture might have to do with the news he had received that his mission was over and would have to work elsewhere.

Thus, the last employee of France Telecom to take his own life was a woman of 32, who on Friday was launched into space from the window of his office in Paris.

For this woman, who spent ten years with the company and took care of debt collection companies Orange (brand name of the group), also was told he had to change jobs.

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