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TEHRAN, May 06 - A decade after a wave of suicides at France Telecom in which 35 employees took their own lives, the telecoms giant and its former CEO go on trial Monday for "moral harassment".
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The case will look at what was behind the deaths that occurred between 2008 and 2009, when Didier Lombard was at the helm of the company today called Orange.
The trial opens at 1130 GMT in a Paris criminal court, nearly seven years after Lombard and France Telecom itself were charged with harassment in what was a first in France.
Also in the dock on the same charge are the company's former number two Louis-Pierre Wenes and the former head of human resources Olivier Barberot.
Four others face charges of complicity in a trial set to be closely followed by businesses, unions and workforce experts.
If convicted, they could face a year behind bars and a 15,000 euro ($16,800) fine.
Expected to last more than two months, it could result in a conviction for institutional psychological harassment.
And France Telecom could be slapped with a 75,000 euro sanction if found guilty of "moral harassment", defined as "frequently repeated acts whose aim or effect is the degradation of working conditions".
Source: AFP
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