Strona główna News Archive Exploited workers against the supermarket Biedronka
Exploited workers against the supermarket Biedronka
poniedziałek, 20 grudnia 2004 16:30
Biedronka is a low-end supermarket owned by Portuguese Jeronimo Martins and there have been dozens of documented examples of abuse by this supermarket. When one of workers Bożena Lopacka won her case to be paid overdue payments for forced overtime, a stream of complaints came out about this company. One woman, who is taking them to court, lost her baby when she was forced to carry extremely heavy loads, which is prohibited by the labour code. A labour inspection in May 2004 of 229 Biedronka locations found that employees routinely worked more than 12 hours a day with no overtime, that Biedronka cut pay by many means, mostly illegal and that employees were forced to lift heavy weights because the company did not provide the shops with forklifts. They are also accused of making employees wear adult diapers so they don't take tiolet breaks.