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35 Employees Committed Suicide. Will Their Bosses Go to Jail?

After a wave of worker suicides under their management, former executives at France Télécom have been charged with the crime of “moral harassment.”

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Hasnain says:

This is so heartbreaking. Makes me wonder when we'll have the promised future with UBI so this does not have to be a problem, and the robots can serve our every whim.

"So the executives resolved to make life so unbearable that the workers would leave, prosecutors say. Instead, at least 35 employees — workers’ advocates say nearly double that number — committed suicide, feeling trapped, betrayed and despairing of ever finding new work in France’s immobile labor market."

Posted on 2019-07-10T06:38:08+0000