Wal Mart Ticks Off the Germans

[HagiaSophia]

The German subsidiary of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has again infuriated employees, this time over policies that workers believe interfere with their private lives and force them to spy on colleagues.
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Often mistrusted for its American corporate culture, the German subsidiary of Wal-Mart has once again stuck its foot in it.*Employees of the 92-store discount chain received a moral lecture along with their February paychecks: a code of ethics employees must follow or face termination, the Financial Times Deutschland reported Tuesday.
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The code forbids Wal-Mart employees from accepting presents from suppliers, dictates that employees may not fall in love with a colleague in a position of influence and requires workers to report colleagues immediately “if they observe that they have broken the rules.” Non-compliance of the rules can lead to termination.

The German management of the company said they adopted the code after increasing requests by their American counterparts to do so. Still, representatives of employees say they will fight the code through the courts. The company declined comment.

dw-world.de/dw/article/0%2C1564%2C1519102%2C00.html

 

[cainem]

sometimes multinational companies have just got to realise the culture from country to country is different from america, not that i’m finding fault with the americans, it just makes good business sense to realise this

 

[Werner]

HagiaSophia:

The German subsidiary of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has again infuriated employees, this time over policies that workers believe interfere with their private lives and force them to spy on colleagues.
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Often mistrusted for its American corporate culture, the German subsidiary of Wal-Mart has once again stuck its foot in it.*Employees of the 92-store discount chain received a moral lecture along with their February paychecks: a code of ethics employees must follow or face termination, the Financial Times Deutschland reported Tuesday.
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The code forbids Wal-Mart employees from accepting presents from suppliers, dictates that employees may not fall in love with a colleague in a position of influence and requires workers to report colleagues immediately “if they observe that they have broken the rules.” Non-compliance of the rules can lead to termination.

The German management of the company said they adopted the code after increasing requests by their American counterparts to do so. Still, representatives of employees say they will fight the code through the courts. The company declined comment.

dw-world.de/dw/article/0%2C1564%2C1519102%2C00.html

Well, the present thing is standard in German companies (small presents like a ballpen or such excluded of course)
What really annoys people is when their employer want’s to tell them whith whom they can be in love, but there is no need to worry about it, because German legislation declares such advises as null and void, eeven if somebody would sign a contract that says he cannot fall in love with a co-worker it means just nothing, because such a contract would be illegal by German law.

Werner