France Télécom bosses to hold crisis talks over staff suicides (Guardian Unlimited)

The French government will hold a crisis meeting with the boss of France Télécom today as concern mounts over a spate of suicides among staff which unions have blamed on workplace stress. Didier Lombard, the chief executive of the telecommunications giant, was summoned by Xavier Darcos, the labour minister, after the number of employees to have taken their own lives in the past 18 months reached ...