English Translation

129 The government regulation also included provisions on the transfer of workers. It was prohibited to conduct a detract from his post by offering a higher wage or salary or more favourable working conditions. The employer was not allowed to employ employees, if he knew or knew according to conditions that the employee had to know that his obligations resulting from a valid or legally undisturbed employment contract could not have been met if he had been employed by him. The employment authorities generally did not agree to abolish the employment contract and made it impossible for workers to move to a better paid place. The change of employment without the approval of the employment office was punishable by high fines (100.000 K) and the punishment of freedom (up to 1 year). The forced labour system meant a firm attachment of the worker to the job and prevented his movement from one employer to another. Working Camps According to Government Regulation No. 404/1942 Coll. on ensuring the stability of wages and salaries and work morals of December 7 (340), replacing the above mentioned vl. nařář. no. 13/1942 Sb., by means of which the criminal proceedings were further extended in the new regulation, sanctions sharpened including new punishment, namely inclusion in labor camps. (341) On a proposal from the competent employment office, persons who have repeatedly violated the obligations arising from the employment commandment may, on a proposal of the competent labour office, have been ordered by the general commander of the uninformed protectorate police or by the office to do so by him to the training work camp. This specifically concerned persons who, without an excuse and without an important reason, did not enter the other territory of the Reich at a time specified in the ordering notice, as well as persons who refused to take up the voluntary work in the other territories of the Empire or who had left work in other areas of the empire against the employment contract.[§ 16) The inclusion of persons in the educational work camp on the basis of the decision of the criminal department of the employment office was unlimited in time unless it was shown that the educational purpose had been achieved, which was decided by the general commander of the uniformed protectorate police or by him authorised by the Office. Boss