A 51-year-old father of two employed in an Orange call centre…threw himself from a motorway bridge near Annecy on Monday. His death brought the number of France Telecom employees who have committed suicide in the past 19 months to 24. Trades union leaders blame the allegedly brutal management culture of a company… the France Telecom management has dismissed the suicides as a contagious "fad"…[C]hief executive…Didier Lombard, admitted yesterday that he had "made mistakes”…[T]he company…is accused of adopting "bullying" tactics to "encourage" unwanted workers to leave the company… Olivier Dunand …of the…CFDT trades-union federation….[said] “[M]any employees are being pushed into unsuitable work to try to ‘break their health’.