PARIS: French healthcare workers and relatives of colleagues who killed themselves have filed a legal complaint against two ministers over \u201cdeadly working conditions\u201d in public hospitals they say are causing suicides, their lawyer said Monday.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s public hospitals have been forced to drastically slash spending in recent decades, and doctors and nurses have long complained of insufficient staffing and low pay.<\/p>\n
Nineteen plaintiffs have now accused Health Minister Catherine Vautrin and Higher Education Minister Elisabeth Borne of allowing \u201ctotally illegal and deadly working conditions\u201d for workers and staff in training at public hospitals across France, according to the complaint seen by AFP.<\/p>\n
They charge in the complaint they filed on Thursday that the ministers hold overall responsibility for workplace harassment and involuntary manslaughter over the deaths by suicide.<\/p>\n
A member of Vautrin\u2019s team told AFP she did not wish \u201cto comment at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also contacted by AFP, Borne was not immediately available for comment. The complaint described a system of \u201ccoercion to illegally organize work overtime,\u201d \u201cthreats\u201d and \u201cforced labor outside any regulatory framework,\u201d as well as \u201ctotalitarian\u201d management practices.<\/p>\n
Case files had been \u201cindividually or systematically completely ignored,\u201d with \u201cno political awareness or willingness to change\u201d current public hospital policies, it read.<\/p>\n
It said conditions were particularly dire in three hospitals in the northeastern region of Alsace, Herault area in southern France, and the Yvelines region west of Paris, which had \u201cwitnessed a particularly preoccupying wave of suicides.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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