STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 519, sig. 109-4/265

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English Translation

67 - 14 - Individual employers who use these workers also for agricultural work during the period of the harvest are the opinion that they are not entitled to pay the wages according to the declared declaration, so they pay wages, according to a statement by the Ministry of Social and Health Administration of 17 January 1941.The interruption of gardeners= work for agricultural harvesting ensures the good result of unsolicited work and does not depend on the employee's will, but on that of the employer.The horticultural workers therefore rightly defend themselves against one of the = such reduction of their salaries. Gardeners' assistants: gardeners work in nurseries, Sundays and holidays= vegetable, flower and seed farms. --- with the aim of ensuring that unsolicited work, e.g. the care of beds, potted plants, plantations, etc. does not take more than 4 hours on Sundays or public holidays and is not specifically rewarded. They request a corresponding allowance for Sunday and public holidays within the meaning of the decree of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour of 27 January 1942. It occurred that workers were assigned such unpostponable work on Sundays and holidays, at the end of 4 hours they continued the work,which was only for the hours worked, and for those worked. 5th,sixth...and so on.