RE: Fairness & Wages

I wished that was the case! I tried it that way for quite a while, but it didn't work. Nor do fines at a point. I have a whole staircase of escalations. Work ethics here are incredibly different from everything I've known from Germany.

To the questions: Yes and no. You're allowed to fine up to 10% of the monthly salary, of course with good arguments and well documented. As mentioned, there are employers here who are greedy idiots and do whatever they can to exploit, and not even few. Hence the spiral. I have had good results doing my best to be fair, resulting in very low churn on employees. And a great team spirit. In the bakery, it has become quite rare that we have to fine. But it took a long way to get there, and a lot of group therapy, as we call our team meetings.