US EditionFrench ministers face legal action over hospital staff suicides
- Nineteen plaintiffs filed a complaint on Thursday against ministers Vautrin, Borne, and Neuder.
- France's public hospitals have faced drastic spending cuts in recent decades, causing staff issues.
- The plaintiffs allege the ministers are responsible for deadly conditions and workplace harassment.
- The complaint cites a nurse's 2023 suicide after he reported an impossible workload and harassment.
- The legal action seeks accountability for the dire conditions potentially causing staff suicides.
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"Suicide wave" in French healthcare – ministers are being sued
Two French ministers are being sued for manslaughter, among other charges, after a series of suicides among French healthcare workers. Behind the tragic events lie decades of cutbacks that have led to “deadly working conditions,” according to healthcare workers and relatives of victims.
Toxic culture contributed to hospital worker taking own life, coroner finds
Victorian mother of two Karla Lee Jordan was 50 years old when she died by her own hand in 2019. A coronial inquest has found she was subject to long-term stress in a workplace plagued with cultural issues.
Epidemic of suicides in hospitals: a complaint filed against three ministers, "there is a form of denial"
A complaint against three ministers was filed on Thursday before the CJR, the Court of Justice of the Republic. This complaint for "moral harassment, fatal violence, manslaughter and endangerment of the person" brings together staff and families of caregivers in the public hospital, some of whom, victims of harassment, ended their lives, notably at the EPSAN in Brumath.
French Public Hospital Staff Sue Ministers Over "Deadly Working Conditions"
French healthcare workers and relatives of colleagues who killed themselves have filed a legal complaint against two ministers over "deadly working conditions" in public hospitals that they say are causing suicides, their lawyer said Monday.
French ministers face legal action over hospital staff suicides
A landmark legal case is bringing national attention to the growing crisis in France’s public hospitals, as ministers face accusations of moral harassment and manslaughter following a series of suicides linked to worsening working conditions.
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