[bombcar]

There are very very few jobs that people actually want to do - and some places do provide stools. Aldi’s does and they’re notoriously famous for overworking their cashiers as much as they can.

I’d expect to see stools at union grocery stories (but I don’t) so it must not be that big of a complaint.

I have seen that almost all now have those padded floor things.

[MandieD]

Aldi probably does this because all grocery cashiers in Germany (home of Aldi) have seats at their registers, and are sitting most of the time. Aldi here also makes them do all sorts of jobs around the store when their registers aren’t needed, so I guess being able to sit at the register is a legal requirement.

[Timon3]

The ArbStättV (basically German "rules for places where people work") says in Anhang 3.3 (2):

> (2) Kann die Arbeit ganz oder teilweise sitzend verrichtet werden oder lässt es der Arbeitsablauf zu, sich zeitweise zu setzen, sind den Beschäftigten am Arbeitsplatz Sitzgelegenheiten zur Verfügung zu stellen. Können aus betriebstechnischen Gründen keine Sitzgelegenheiten unmittelbar am Arbeitsplatz aufgestellt werden, obwohl es der Arbeitsablauf zulässt, sich zeitweise zu setzen, müssen den Beschäftigten in der Nähe der Arbeitsplätze Sitzgelegenheiten bereitgestellt werden.

Roughly translated:

> If the work can be done fully or partially while sitting or if the workflow allows intermittent seating, the worker has to have a place to sit at their place of work. If due to work circumstances no seating can be set up directly at the place of work, even though the workflow itself allows for intermittent seating, the worker has to have a place to sit close to his place of work.

Very roughly translated, sorry.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbst_ttv_2004/anhang.htm...

[Buttons840]

I agree, as you say, there are very few jobs people want to do, but they do them anyways. Thus, people will probably continue to work for employers that deny them water breaks. The question is whether we collectively want workers to be treated that way in our society.