Draft:Zalando and unions

The fashion e-commerce platform Zalando employs 17.0000 people as of February 2023.

Transnational
In 2015, a 6-person European Company (SE) Works Council was elected to represent the 7,000 employees across Europe after Zalando converted its company structure into a (SE) European Company. The low employee voter turnout of 25% in the SE European Works Council election was criticized by ver.di, the German trade union.

Germany
A study commissioned by the trade union affiliated Hans-Boeckler foundation in 2019, criticized Zalando for its usage of in-house HR software called Zonar to enable corporate employees to peer-review each other, which affected pay and job security. The feedback initially was stored indefinitely, inaccessible to the person being rated and up to 8 fellow employees provided the feedback. After new safeguards were imposed by the Berlin Data Protection Authority, the data retention period became temporary, feedback is now accessible to the affected employee and a maximum of 3 people could provide feedback. The 5,000 Berlin based corporate employees of Zalando SE elect a Works Council for first time in October 2020.