English Translation

Introductory note by Dr. Wiesel that the situation in the field of labour had been further aggravated. The reservoir of workers in the East had already been used to such an extent that the rest of the areas - particularly the occupied western areas - had to be taken into account before all. However, regardless of this, the fact that the only and last great reserve of human labor power is that the human maximum performance has not yet been achieved everywhere. The wage-orienting measures and the associated rationalisation of the flow of labour in the enterprises will therefore have to be given even greater attention in Zulunft. On the individual points of the agenda: 1.) Working conditions in the event of relocation of firms and the implementation of members of the workforce: the provisions of the General Plenipotentiary for Labour, as provided for in a draft decree which was discussed in detail, are essentially in line with the provisions already laid down for the organization of wage questions in the case of the relocation of Elöckner Werke from Hamburg to Brno. A number of employees in the employment sector wanted the members to be obliged to perform their duties in these cases, and that compensation for wages should be provided through compulsory service support. Rather, the entrepreneur's right of representation should also give him the power to transfer his followers to other areas (also outside the rest of the Reich), so that failure to comply with such orders of the entrepreneur would have to be regarded as a breach of employment contract. This question is to be examined again in the final analysis; until a decision has been taken, it is to remain with the company wage compensation (e.g. according to the example of the Klöckner regulation).