At the online retailer Zalando, employees are to receive additional vacation days.
This is intended to recognize the performance during the corona pandemic.
In the
corona crisis *
It was and is anything but easy for many employees.
The employees of the online fashion retailer
Zalando
are all the more
pleased about the following measure: As
Spiegel Online
wrote, referring to the Reuters news agency, the online fashion retailer is giving its employees an extra week of vacation.
So in addition to the annual vacation.
Zalando gives employees an additional week of vacation
According to the
Spiegel.de
report, the group is taking a break together
.
Personnel manager Astrid Arndt announced in a blog post to the more than 14,500 employees
that there will be an
additional week of vacation
for all employees from August 2 to 6
.
The first “collective break” should serve to recognize the “performance and challenges” of the past months and should provide “strength and energy” for the next period.
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According to
Spiegel Online
, the
online fashion retailer
, like its competitors AboutYou from Hamburg and Asos and Boohoo from Great Britain, benefits from the fact that more and more people are buying clothes online.
However, the growth in such a short time was also associated with high workloads, according to
Spiegel.de
.
Zalando paid every employee a bonus of 500 euros for work in the corona crisis last year.
Corona bonus from the employer - regulation extended in this country
Other employers have also already paid their employees a corona bonus.
In this country, the regulation in the corona crisis provides that
employees
can receive
up to 1,500 euros as a
tax-free corona bonus
from their
employer
.
The regulation was initially limited to June 30, 2021, but has now been extended to March 31, 2022.
You can find out more about the tax-free corona bonus here.
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