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The fashion e-commerce platform Zalando employs 17.0000 people as of February 2023.[1]

Transnational

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In 2015, a 6-person European Company (SE) Works Council was elected to represent the 7,000 employees across Europe after Zalando converted its company structure into a (SE) European Company. The low employee voter turnout of 25% in the SE European Works Council election was criticized by ver.di, the German trade union.[2]

Germany

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A study commissioned by the trade union affiliated Hans-Boeckler foundation in 2019,[3] criticized Zalando for its usage of in-house HR software called Zonar to enable corporate employees to peer-review each other, which affected pay and job security.[4] The feedback initially was stored indefinitely, inaccessible to the person being rated and up to 8 fellow employees provided the feedback. After new safeguards were imposed by the Berlin Data Protection Authority, the data retention period became temporary, feedback is now accessible to the affected employee and a maximum of 3 people could provide feedback.[5] The 5,000 Berlin based corporate employees of Zalando SE elect a Works Council for first time in October 2020.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Gain, Vish (2023-02-22). "Fashion-tech company Zalando to cut hundreds of jobs". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "Online-Modehändler: Verdi kritisiert Betriebsrat bei Zalando". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  3. ^ Staab, Philipp; Geschke, Sascha-Christopher (2020). Ratings als arbeitspolitisches Konfliktfeld: Das Beispiel Zalando [Ratings as an area of conflict in labor policy: the case study of Zalando] (PDF) (Report) (in German). Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.
  4. ^ "Vorwurf der 'Arbeitnehmerfeindlichen' Überwachung: Gewerkschaft kritisiert Mitarbeiterkontrolle bei Zalando" [Accusation of 'anti-employee' surveillance: Trade union criticizes employee monitoring at Zalando]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 20 November 2019. ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  5. ^ Kläsgen, Michael; Hagelüken, Alexander (8 April 2021). "Zalando muss nach Druck von Datenschützern Personalsystem ändern" [Zalando must change HR system after pressure from data protection authority]. Süddeutsche (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  6. ^ Kaleta, Philip (2020-10-06). "5.000 Mitarbeiter der Zalando SE wählen erstmals einen Betriebsrat - per Brief". Business Insider (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-02.
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Category:Tech sector trade unions Category:Labor relations by company Category:Labor relations in Germany Category:Labor disputes in Sweden

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