France probes worker conditions after two suicides, multiple attempts from gov't employees – report

France has initiated judicial and internal investigations into the Prime Minister's Service (SPM) following two employee suicides and multiple suicide attempts within recent months. Labor unions requested meetings with SPM leadership in early June, leading to the approval of an internal investigation into an employee's suicide attempt and a commitment to broader external investigations into workplace risks across all SPM offices. A complaint was filed in June under Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, alleging "exceptionally serious issues" concerning SPM's working conditions, citing a case where an employee was "made invisible" and "mocked, jeered at as if in schoolyard bullying, ostracized." This pattern of workplace suffering is attributed to political instability and a generational shift in management styles within the public administration.