Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on May 16, 2019, 2:24 PM

Can you be responsible for suicides when people lose their jobs as a result of company restructuring? A trial in France will make that call.

The French telecoms giant Orange is, along with its former CEO Didier Lombard and other top executives, on trial for "moral harassment" that prosecutors say led to a spate of suicides among employees a decade ago. Thirty-five staffers killed themselves between 2008 and 2009, at a time when France Telecom—as it was then known—had recently been privatized and was busy cutting jobs and repeatedly moving staff around.