Part 20 (1/2)

1. If they become incapable of continuing work;

2. If the employer or his representatives are guilty of violence or abuse towards the workers or their relatives;

3. If the employer or his representatives or their relatives lead or seek to lead the workers or their relatives into illegal or immoral courses, or if they unite with relatives of the workers in committing illegal or immoral acts;

4. If the employer does not pay the wage due to the workers in the manner prescribed, if, under the piece-work system, he does not provide them with sufficient employment, or if he is guilty of illegally over-reaching them;

5. If, by continuing the work, the life or health of the workers would be exposed to a demonstrable risk which was not apparent at the time of entering into the contract.

In the cases mentioned under No. 2, quitting service without notice is no longer permissible if the grounds thereof have been known to the workers for longer than one week.

-- 124_a_.

Besides the cases specified in ---- 123 and 124, each party may, in cases where urgent reasons exist, demand to be released from working relations before the expiration of the contract time and without observing the due period of notice, if the contract is for longer than four weeks, or if a longer period of notice than fourteen days has been agreed upon.

-- 124_b_.

If a journeyman or a.s.sistant has quitted work illegally, the employer may claim compensation for the day of the breach of contract and for each following day of the contract time or legal working time, during one week at most, to the amount of the local customary daily wage (-- 8 of the Insurance against Sickness Act of June 15, 1883; _Imperial Law Gazette_, p. 73). This claim need not rest upon proof of loss. When thus made good, claim for fulfilment of contract and further compensation for loss is precluded. The journeyman or a.s.sistant shall enjoy the same right against the employer, if he has been dismissed before the legal ending of the working relations.

-- 125.

Any employer inducing a journeyman or a.s.sistant to quit work before the legal ending of working relations, shall himself be liable to the former employer for loss arising, or for the legal compensation claim under -- 124_b_. In the same manner an employer shall be answerable if he takes into his employ a journeyman or a.s.sistant who to his knowledge is still contracted to any employer.

Any employer shall also be liable under the foregoing sub-section if he employs a journeyman or a.s.sistant, who to his knowledge is still contracted to another employer, throughout the duration of such term; the claim expires after fourteen days from the date of the illegal dissolution of working relations.

The persons specified in -- 119_b_ shall be accounted as journeymen and a.s.sistants as understood by the foregoing provisions.

III. APPRENTICE RELATIONS.

-- 126.

The master shall be bound to instruct the apprentice in all branches of the work of the trade forming part of his business, in due succession and to the extent necessary for the complete mastery of the trade or handicraft. He must conduct the instruction of the apprentice himself or through a fit representative expressly appointed thereto. He shall not deprive the apprentice of the necessary time and opportunity on Sundays and holidays for his education and for attendance at Divine Service, by employing him in other kinds of service. He shall train his apprentice in habits of diligence and in good morals, and shall keep him from evil courses.

-- 127.

The apprentice shall be placed under the parental discipline of the master. He shall be bound to render obedience to the one who conducts his instruction in the place of the master.

-- 128.

Apprentice relations may be dissolved by the withdrawal of one party during the first four weeks after the beginning of the apprentices.h.i.+p, unless a longer time has been agreed upon.

Any agreement to fix this time of probation at longer than three months shall be void.