Lidl forces Czech and Polish employees to mark themselves during their periods: Lidl has once again shown its true face. Lebensmittelzeitung, the leading commerce weekly, tells that the German hard discounter has forced its Czech saleswomen to wear a special headband during their menstruation periods. Reportedly, this practice was imposed on the women workers also in Poland, which shows that the management in Germany must have known and approved of it. The headband was forced on the women workers to allow supervisors to identify when they had their monthly periods, as they were the only ones allowed to go to the toilet, without asking for special permission. Other workers cannot do this except during scheduled daily breaks. Lidl has stepped over the limits of good taste, says the German commerce industry weekly.