English Translation

Of The Head of Group II/4 Prague, 25 February 1942 Secretary of State Dr. Dennler. To About the 2/2.43 Mr. Superior Councillor Mr. Head of Division II and Dr. G i e s , Mr. Under Secretary Czerninpalais. to Mr. Suaats Secretary.in 21O Moravia. RLO0 Eing.: 3. MR.Z.1942 Subject: Holiday payment for house assistants. Reference: Letter of 12 February 1982. In the case of holidays, the house assistants receive the above-mentioned daily rate of RM 3 as compensation only for the cost and housing not granted during these days. In addition, you are entitled to the proportion of the monthly cash remuneration corresponding to the duration of the holiday. In the rest of the Reich area, fixed daily rates are also fixed by the agents of the work for the assessment of the benefits in kind, which are generally not higher than the rates of the protectorate. They are either determined there by numbers e.g. L.-- RM per day or are determined as in the Protectorate on the basis of the valuation of the natural receipts fixed for social insurance. In a decree of l3. VI. 194l on the elimination of maladministration in the field of the remuneration of domestic workers, the Minister of Labour issued guidelines for the regulation of the wage and working conditions for domestic workers in order to prevent the payment of excessive wages. In these guidelines, an amount of 1.50 RM is considered appropriate during the holiday period in the first class of place, in the second class of location an amount not exceeding 1.30 RM per day. On the basis of the guidelines of the Reichsarbeitsmini- ster, for example, the Reichstreuhänder Sudetenland has fixed the following daily rates: 1.50 rm for Reichenberg and Karlsbad St. S.πt-144