The price war with the discounters is relentless – that’s what the employees have to pay the apparently correct: A ZDF documentary reveals bad working conditions at Lidl & co.
discounters are popular with the Germans: The low prices at Aldi, Lidl & co. attract every week, around eight out of ten Germans in the branches. However, in order to keep prices as low as possible, you need to pay the employees, apparently, expensive.
Lidl, Netto and Norma: ZDF-documentary reveals the true States behind the Scenes
The ZDF-documentary “the main thing is cheap? – The System Discounter” revealed on Wednesday evening terrible abuses behind the Scenes of Lidl, Netto and Norma . The employees should constantly work to the Limit, working Overtime churning slide. Cause: too little staff and too high a workload.
In the case of Lidl, it is the “hour of power”
In the case of Lidl, for example, actually, of the “showcase discount” in the industry, always striving for a good Image, go it especially to so-called hours . “The formula is hours: revenues are used to employees. This figure shows the performance of a branch,” explains economist Prof. Tanju Aygün in the documentary. If a branch can therefore cope with less hours, more sales, and accepted this as a particularly “good”. A former employee should have reported to the ZDF that there is even a internal ranking , which branch during the hours of performance are particularly well-regarded.
to create this, would the employees, however, often in vain. After ten hours of work to clock-out employees namely, officially, to risk any Trouble, so the Ex-employee. However, to cope with the workload, would you then still further – up to 14 hours of the day.
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High work load due to long work days and too little staff
net employee required to complain of similar situations: “We get, how much revenue should we plan and how many hours we get,” complains a branch Manager in the documentary. “These hours are not sufficient, in order to cope with this work. So I am forced to stay longer. I don’t write – I’ll give the company.”
Ellen long working days of twelve to 14 hours will be owed on the net, especially the scarce personnel and the so-called “1:1-the occupation”. Means in plain text: A colleague is sitting at the cash register, another takes care of the Rest: shelves fill up, Deposit machines go empty, the phone and the cash support.
also read: for this reason, it is Aldi, Lidl and co. increasingly difficult to find employees.
Experiment shows the enormous amount of work load on the shelves to give
The enormous workload and lead according to the documentary Health effects such as muscle or joint pain , insomnia, nervousness and psychological stress.
the discount of employees suffering from the physical requirements, should also show an Experiment that the documentary-makers led together with working scientists, André Klußmann. A former saleswoman acknowledged, shelves – wired with Sensors, which analyzed, among other things, the posture and the stress on the joints at the Computer.
The result is that After 100 to 200 unpacked boxes, the seller ended up in the yellow risk area. The constant kneeling, Bending and overhead Work is a huge stress for the body. This could lead, according to experts, in the short or long wear and tear in knees and shoulder joints. Studies confirm the result of the experiment: After this muscle-skeleton-diseases, in fact, the most common cause of illness in the retail sector , cause every fourth day of absence. Mental diseases are supposed to be in the retail in addition, for every sixth day of absence responsible.
Lidl and Netto deny allegations
Lidl and Netto deny, however, the allegations of the documentary . So Lidl writes, not covered by working hours was contrary to the business principles. Net answers, the health and the protection of employees in the workplace have top priority for the company, considering, of course, to all statutory requirements.
Also interesting: of pressure and Stress: cashier explains why she would never work at Aldi.
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