Discount
supermarket chain Lidl is breaching the rights of its employees; cheap shopping
at the stores appears to come at a price, according to Dutch daily nrc.next.
Complaints
by staff members, collected by the paper, highlight the working conditions at
the German-based company. Lidl employees are allowed only one lavatory visit
per day, unless they are wearing a "menstrual wristband", in which
case they can go to the bathroom without restrictions. Staff are monitored by
CCTV, and occasionally even shadowed by detectives.
Reports of
Lidl's practices surfaced earlier in Germany, but subsided later. The
practices, however, appear to have continued. Last month the FNV union
distributed information leaflets among Lidl employees. A group of thirteen
union shop stewards has said it will try and get the workers' rights respected
by the employer.
A German
director of Lidl was fired in 2009 after media revealed that the company
systematically monitored employees' health records, including which employees
were hoping to get pregnant. The German branch employs some 50,000
people.
The company
has not responded to the latest allegations.
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