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The now former head of operations was seen as being responsible for orchestrating the snooping campaign that LIDL evidently has been running since 2008. UNI commerce global union finds such policies abhorrent and a breach on workers right and total lack of respect for its employees. LIDL is already known as being a lukewarm employer and thus accusations of snooping on its employees are hardly surprising especially after the company was fined by a German court in 2008 for the use of private detectives to watch employees with hidden cameras. For that offence the company had to pay €1.5 million.



Documents recently found revealed that LIDL systematically had collected information of a nature that infringed upon workers right to privacy and furthermore, was in violation of German laws on data protection.



The protection of workers from prying employers in German is wanting and legislation on so-called anti-snooping is currently being considered by the German government. UNI commerce cannot but strongly encourage the German government to right this wrong so that German workers can be adequately protected so that they can perform their jobs without the risk of being spied on.



http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4157506,00.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,608223,00.html