The Theory and Policy of Labour ProtectionSchäffle, A. (Albert)
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The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection
Schäffle, A. (Albert)
Labor laws and legislation -- Germany
The provisions of Sec.Sec. 121 to 125 shall apply to factory workers; if the
factory workers are apprentices, the provisions of Sec.Sec. 126 to 133 shall
apply to them.
Owners of factories in which, as a rule, at least twenty workers are
employed, shall be prohibited, in the case of illegal dissolution of
working relations by the worker, from exacting forfeiture or withholding
wage beyond the amount of the average weekly wage. The provisions of Sec.
124_b_ shall not apply to employers and workers in such factories.
Sec. 134_a_.
In every factory in which, as a rule, at least twenty workers are
employed, _working rules_ shall be issued within four weeks after this
Act comes into force, or after the opening of the business. Special
working rules may be issued for separate departments of the business, or
separate groups of workers. The rules must be posted up (Sec. 134_e_ [2]).
In the working rules must be set forth the time at which they are to
come into operation and the date of issue. They must bear the signature
of the person by whom they are issued.
Alterations in the contents can only be made by the issue of
supplements, or by the issue of new working rules in the place of the
existing rules.
Working rules, and supplement to the same, shall come into operation at
the earliest, two weeks after issue.
Sec. 134_b_.
Working rules shall contain directions:
1. As to the beginning and end of the time of daily work, also as
to the intervals provided for adult workers;
2. As to the time and manner of computing and paying wage;
3. Where legal provisions are insufficient, as to the period of
notice due, also as to the grounds on which dismissal from work and
quitting work is permissible without notice;
4. Where fines are enforced, as to the kind and amount thereof, the
method of determining them, and, if they consist in money, as to
the manner of collecting them, and the purpose to which they shall
be appropriated.
5. Where forfeiture of wage is exacted in accordance with the
provisions of Sec. 134 (2), by the working rules or by the working
contract, as to the appropriation of the proceeds.
Punishments destructive of self-respect, or dangerous to morals, shall
not be admitted in the working rules. Money fines shall not exceed the
half of the average daily wage, except in cases of violence towards
fellow-workers, grave offences against morality, and contempt of
directions issued for the maintenance of order in the business, for
security against dangers incidental to it, or for carrying out the
provisions of the Industrial Code, where money fines to the full amount
of the average daily wage may be imposed. All fines shall be devoted to
the benefit of the workers in the factory. The right of the employer to
claim compensation for damage is not affected by this provision.
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