France: Labor Ministry introduces “name and shame” method to encourage businesses to deal with the issue of stress

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bor Ministry recently ranked businesses with more than 1,000 employees according to their efforts to prevent psychosocial risks. In October 2009, after the wave of suicides at France Telecom, the government asked businesses with over 1,000 employees to open “significant” talks on the prevention of psychosocial risks. This time, there’s no financial sanction for businesses failing to respect the rules but advertising of the companies’ actions on a government website. The first report, just relea

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