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    The document discusses reports of poor working conditions at logistics centers operated by third parties on behalf of Zalando. It details investigations by German TV channels that found low wages, strict monitoring of employees, and physical demands that resulted in health issues for some workers. Zalando faced criticism and litigation over its labor practices and marketing.

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    The German newspaper Bild reported on statements of the German Federal Economic Ministry

    indicating that from 2007 to 2012 Zalando received around 3.3 million Euro in subsidies from regional
    development programs. Zalando also requested subsidies for 2013. The Deutsche
    Mittelstandsnachrichten reported that the Samwer brothers’ business model is predicated on using
    foreign capital and cheap labour to quickly build up a company, selling it as fast as possible.

    In July 2012, German TV channel ZDF broadcast a report on the packing and distribution centre
    operated for Zalando by a provider near Berlin.[34] The report showed the appalling working
    conditions at the company providing logistical services to Zalando. In the logistical center of
    Großbeeren certain staff, who often commute more than 200 km per day from nearby Poland, are
    not allowed to sit down during their working day.[35] It was further shown that employees were
    subject to continuous scrutiny, workspace was extremely confined and for several hundreds of
    employees there was only one filthy toilet container. The ZDF also criticized the hourly wage of
    €7,01, which was nonetheless in conformity with the minimum hourly wages for agency workers in
    Germany. Following the ZDF report it was revealed that Zalando had also received a 22,5 million euro
    subsidy from the government of Thüringen to build new headquarters. According to a ZDF reporter
    who went undercover, around 40 employees are being paid by the taxpayer between seven and nine
    days every month in the framework of apprenticeship programs, while one third of the employees
    are agency workers. Following the report, Zalando announced that it would scrutinize its service
    providers more strictly.

    In April 2014 RTL broadcast the documentary Unrelenting pressure in the workplace (Arbeiten unter
    Dauerdruck), which had been made with the support of undercover journalist Günter Wallraff.[36]
    The documentary led to renewed criticism on the labour conditions at Zalando. Journalist Caro Lobig
    worked undercover for three months as an order picker in the logistical center at Erfurt. During an
    eight-hour shift she had to walk up to 27 kilometres (17 mi). After five weeks she started to suffer
    from circulation problems. According to an anonymous employee working at the ambulance service,
    there is hardly a day when they are not called to the logistics center. According to a labour judge
    interviewed by RTL, Zalando violates German Labour law because of its rules on breaks, by
    prohibiting its employees from sitting down and by imposing airport-security-type measures on its
    employees. Through its tight control over its employees, Zalando would also be in violation of privacy
    rules. RTL requested Zalando to give comments to the allegations but Zalando refused.[37] Instead,
    Zalando filed a complaint against Lobig for revealing corporate secrets. Lobig in turn filed a complaint
    against the company regarding her severance pay.[38]

    In November 2015 the Centre for Protection against Unfair Competition in Germany filed a suit
    claiming that Zalando misled consumers on the availability of certain products suggesting that they
    needed to act fast to buy them. Zalando said that they had already changed their marketing
    practices, taking the Centre's concerns into account. They claimed that they no longer informed
    consumers that there were "three items available" when more than three were available.[39]

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