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TELECOMS giant Orange was found guilty today of “collective moral harassment” against its staff which resulted in at least 19 suicides between 2006 and 2009.
Former company CEO Didier Lombard has been handed a four-month prison sentence and fined €15,000 (£12,750), while Orange has been fined €75,000 (£64,000) and ordered to pay out hundreds of thousands of euros in compensation. Orange’s 2018 revenues exceeded €41 billion (£37.8bn).
Mr Lombard’s number two Louis-Pierre Weynes and human resources director Olivier Barberot were also convicted of mounting a “policy of destabilisation” in a bid to slash jobs and have been sentenced to prison terms and fines. All three are planning to appeal.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM