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Benefits December 23, 2003
Decking the Halls – Within Limits
December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even Christmas
carols can get to be too much of a good thing.
Reported by Fred Schneyer
A little fa-la-la-la-la-la is fine, say employees at some stores in the Czech Republic, but things get a bit much when retailers play holiday music continually – and at full blast, the Associated Press reported. That’s why Czech unions have demanded an end to the practice and compensation for workers driven around the Christmas bend by the non-stop cheer.
Union leaders suggest two days away from all the hubbub
– or $19.
“To listen to it for eight hours a day is not
healthy, that’s for sure,” said Alexandr Leiner, a union
leader. “And for the customers, it’s almost unbearable as
well.”
Unions in neighboring Austria have lodged similar
complaints against stores there, the AP said.
Tesco spokesman Vesselin Barliev said his company has not
received any complaints. “We don’t see the music as a
problem,” he said.