English Translation

118 (317) The Offices of Labour were initially only at least limited by process, thus opening doors to various bullyings and violations of the last rest of the rights that the so-called protectorate law granted to workers. Only in the above mentioned vl.no.46/1941 Coll. Paragraph 6 (5) provides that the employer may appeal to the competent employment office within 15 days of the date of receipt of the notice. The appeal did not have suspensory effect. The employment office may have granted suspensive effect in individual, special consideration of good cases, in particular if the person ordered by the commandment would have suffered irreplaceable damage. The appeal was finally decided by the Ministry of Social and Health Administration, who was responsible as the Supervisory Authority to repeal the decision of the Labour Office and to give it instructions for further proceedings and new decisions. However, in the practice of the Protectorate authorities and in the strong position of the authorities working with the Germans in the leading positions, the appeal had no hope of success. In theory, a complaint was admissible to the Supreme Administrative Court. However, that was not practical enough. The proceedings before the Supremes Administrative Court were very costly and lasted a long time. For this reason, the complaint to the General Administrative Court was illusionary because a quick decision was required in the event of termination of the employment relationship. It remained an open question, if it was possible to submit a breakdown against the decision of the Labour Office. (318) However, the answer to this question would not be practical, since the contested degradation could rather expose the complainant to further bullying by the Labour Bureau than to remedy it. The employees of the Labour Office often behaved so arrogantly that the newly established Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, which played an important role in the mobilisation of the workforce, considered it necessary to issue a decree on 27.7.1942 requiring labour leaders to instruct their subordinates in the right way of dealing with the public. (319) "Ministry of Exploatation" In January 1942 the Ministry of Economy and Labour was newly established, whose minister became Reichské Němec W.Bertsch, which was in August 1939 Reich's