The representatives - of _nonindustrial unions, and in particular of commercial employees and teachers, complained of the very trying. conditions of labour to which they were exposed, and of the total lack of interest shown in them by the Commissariat of Labour. Thus, "commercial employees have, for the most part, to work in premises which are damp, insufficiently lighted, and not properly ventilated. Each employee has to serve on ai average 800 customers a day. Their hours of work are not regulated en accordance with the Labour Code, and they very often work many hours' unpaid overtime. The Commissariat of Labour, to which they have appeared, has taken no interest in the question. The factory inspectors never visit the State commercial or ce-operative undertaking: despite the complaints of the unions.
Teachers in villages complained that the provisions of the Labour Code in connexion with dismissal and overtime were not observed:
They were dismissed without notice and without compensation. They ware compelled continually to work twice and even three times the statutory number of hours, and ived no supplementary salary although their basic salary was extremely low. Doctors also complained of hours of work. It frequently happens that they are compelled to work a 12-hour day. The Delegate of the Union of Doctors described conditions of Inbour in the hospitals as appalling. He also referred to the increasing number of eases of malingering workers threatening the doctors with violence unless they give them medical certificate,
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