Germany: Lidl wants minimum wage in retail trade

r in Germany, Lidl, requested, in an open letter published on February 17, 2010 in the German press, that the social partners in retail trade, a sector that employs 2.9 million people, 930,000 of which with low wages, negotiate sectoral minimum wage. This offer surprised everyone. Indeed, in terms of personnel management, Lidl is considered as one of the sector’s black sheep for illegally spying on its employees or preventing several WC elections in its subsidiaries.…