Seven former France Telecom executives have gone on trial over allegations that the cost-cutting regime they presided on over a decade ago caused dozens of employees to take their own lives.
Former CEO Didier Lombard, his former No. 2 Louis-Pierre Wenes, and Olivier Barberot, the ex-head of human resources at France Telecom (which changed its name to Orange in 2013), are on trial for unprecedented charges of “moral harassment” that allegedly prompted 35 employees to take their lives in 2008 and 2009 (and dozens more to attempt to do so).
