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H&M branch on the Zeil shopping street in Frankfurt (archive image)
Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / picture-alliance / dpa
In the weeks after the works council was founded, Aylin G. sometimes panicked.
"You'll see what you get out of it," a colleague had threatened her.
Now G. worried that someone would ambush her after work.
G. says that she often had stomach aches at work.
Almost nobody has greeted her since she was elected works council member of the H&M branch 611 in Essen on July 29, 2020.
She believed that her boss Sebastian Kanbach had released her to be shot.
She feared psychological terror similar to that which a colleague had suffered a long time ago.
“Someone had stabbed his water bottle with a sharp object,” says G.
The 26-year-old with frizzy black hair is by no means the only one who feels she has been treated unfairly by H&M.
For more than ten years, accusations of bullying have been raised against the fashion giant.
One central point is often overlooked: The agitation among colleagues obviously has a method.
It is part of a perfidious personnel policy, according to the general works council.
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