European Press Roundup: Zalando Faces Criticism After Study Highlights Staff Rankings
21 Novembre 2019 - 01:26PM
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In Europe today, industrial giant Thyssenkrupp widened its
losses amid restructuring efforts and a manufacturing slump, while
shares in U.K. postal service Royal Mail were set for their worst
fall in two years. Read about the above topics on Dow Jones
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Zalando has been criticized for working with a
performance-management tool that employees use to rank each other.
German union Verdi has complained about working conditions at the
fashion company after a study found that the use of the tool
increased stress, and questioned staff data privacy. Zalando has
rejected the study findings and criticized the study for not being
representative. -Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Jump, the electric-bike share company owned by Uber, signed a
partnership with France's Veolia to recycle parts of electric bikes
and scooters. -Les Echos
Turkish travel company Anex Tour will take over Bucher Reisen
& Oeger Tours, a subsidiary of German travel group Thomas Cook
GmbH, which had to file for insolvency after its U.K.-based parent
company Thomas Cook Group collapsed earlier this year. Earlier this
week, department-store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof said it was
going to take on 106 of the group's travel agencies as well as its
online platform. -Handelsblatt
A technical issue has led to delays and cancellations for dozens
of British Airways flights. According to a Gatwick Airport
spokesperson there was a problem with a flight plan system.
-BBC
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica, has increased
through its holding Delfin its stake in EssilorLuxottica by almost
1% to around 32.8%. -Il Sole 24 Ore
Italian broadcaster Mediaset and its shareholder Vivendi are in
talks to potentially reach a deal to end a long-running legal
battle as a court-imposed deadline approaches. Under a potential
settlement, it seems like Mediaset would raise its offer to buy
back the shares at above EUR3 each from EUR2.77, but the French
media company would still consider the price "unsatisfactory." -Il
Messaggero
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