"The company, France Télécom — which used to be state-owned and is now known as Orange, one of France’s largest corporations — was fined $83,000, the maximum penalty."
Nice.
Nice.
But you leave out the four months in prison for the CEO which is something. It's not clear from the wording whether he was the only one imprisoned.
"Yet since that term is under two years and as Lombard does not present a danger to society, he will not spend time behind bars under French court rules." [0]
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-justice-orange-sen...
Considering 2 people died, and this slap on the wrist is 6 month of wages, divide by two and that's 3 month pay for every dead worker.
Will the executive have to pay out of their pocket? If so, each executive can have up to 4 dead workers per year before having to worry -- not even taking bonuses in account!
Europe never ceases to amaze me.
A smart executive will have some money set aside, but in general losing your entire wage is something most people would be very worried about