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Laurence Van Wassenhove is suing her longtime employer, telecom giant Orange, for discrimination-after spending 20 years on payroll without ever being assigned meaningful work.
Originally hired by France Télécom in 1993 and later moved to a secretary role due to medical reasons, Van Wassenhove says her repeated requests for a suitable position were ignored. Despite medical evaluations confirming she could no longer perform her assigned duties, she was put on standby and eventually placed on long-term sick leave!
According to Van Wassenhove, this resulted in two decades of forced inactivity that left her isolated, demoralized, and suffering from severe depression. Her lawsuit accuses Orange of failing to provide reasonable workplace accommodation and instead effectively sidelining her. The case raises broader questions about how companies treat disabled employees-and whether neglecting them entirely constitutes a different form of workplace harm.
