Cologne - The food discounter Lidl has recorded the reasons for illness of employees in a list.
The data have now been discovered by accident in a dumpster in Bochum, so the "Mirrors". Lidl conceded: "This was not data protection, but was used to deploy our staff according to their health condition."
The end of 2008 had been stopped the practice. The documents were not properly disposed, and so the "Mirrors have been leaked."
In its "cause of the illness" was thus noted among other things, an employee who was on sick leave in June last year: "Will become pregnant (). Fertilization does not work. "In the case of a store manager had" personal problems "were noted. In other states as cause of disease, "psychologist".
All entries are from the period after the discovery of the spying methods at Lidl, which had caused a stir in March 2008. Detectives were instructed to monitor the behavior of employees.
After this affair Lidl had the former Federal Privacy Commissioner Joachim Jacob hired to develop a data protection plan for the company. The current Federal Data Protection Peter Schaar, said: "The reason of illness, the employer basically nothing."
