Dr. Reginald Farrar's report to the Local Government Board on the conditions under which persons are employed in pea-picking : with some general observations on the employment of casual labour in agricultural districts, and an appendix giving the police regulations in force during the hop-picking season in certain districts of Bavaria.

  • Farrar, Reginald, 1861-1921.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Dr. Reginald Farrar's report to the Local Government Board on the conditions under which persons are employed in pea-picking : with some general observations on the employment of casual labour in agricultural districts, and an appendix giving the police regulations in force during the hop-picking season in certain districts of Bavaria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same time pay '2\d. to the local police authorities as an examination fee. § 5. In the parish of Wernfels (in accordance with the statutes of the Kgl. Regierung, 20th Feb., 1893, and 25th May 1903) the imported hop-pickers must be insured against illness, and to this end employers of labour must, at the time of notifying their workpeople to the parish authorities, also effect their insurance against illness and pay the appointed sum in advance for the workmen so notified for the duration of the hop-picking. § 6. All hop-pickers are enjoined to give prompt compliance to the regulations put forth by their employers, and to behave them- selves towards them with propriety and civility on all occasions. During the hours of work agreed on, the pickers may not leave their work without the permission of the employer or his repre- sentative. Pickers are also not allowed to frequent public houses during the hours of work. Pickers are further forbidden to camp out in the open, or to use gipsy wagons, carts or the like movable dwellings, or to be without a fixed domicile. § 7. On Sundays and holidays, during the hop-picking season, all public houses in the parishes of Auerau, Beerbach (here follow 12 other names) must be closed for the night at 9 p.m. After closing time the doors of all houses must be locked and no one may walk about the roads and field paths without reasonable pretext. § 8. Employers and householders are forbidden to take in at the same time pickers of both sexes, or to allow them to pass the night in their houses, unless they are members of one family. Employers may not give beer or spirits to school children as an adjunct to Avages or in lieu of the same. § 9. In the event of the dismissal of workpeople, it is the duty of the employer to notify the same at once to the local police authorities and to fetch away the workmen’s papers deposited with them and to return the same to the Avorkmen. § 10. Workmen who have stopped work or who have been dis- charged, must, if they have lodged in any parish within the district of Schwabach, leave the parish in which they have worked within 12 hours, or if they have lodged outside the district, must leave likewise within 12 hours, and the whole district within 24 hours. Workmen employed Avithin the neighbouring districts of Gunzen- hausen, Hilpoltstein and Weissenburg, must, on terminating their work, not I’emain unemployed longer than one hour within any parish of the Schwabach district, and must leave the last named district at longest Avithin 12 hours of entering the same, if they are not lodging in it. § 11. Breaches of Regulation § 1, par. 3; § 2 ; § 3, par. 1 : § 4; § 6-10, will, in accordance Avith Article 44 of the Police Regulations and Penalties, be punishable by a fine not exceeding £3 or 14 days’ imprisonment. Breaches of Regulation § 5 fine not exceeding £l. § 12. The Regulation for closing in § 7 comes into force from Saturday, August 15th ; all other Regulations come into force from the day of publication. SCHAVABACH, 26th July, 1908.