Confidence councils ( German Vertrauensräte ) were created in Nazi Germany at enterprises and companies employing more than 20 employees, after the introduction of the Law on the Regulation of National Labor of January 20, 1934. They served as the sole representative body of workers before the “ leader of the enterprise ” (ie the entrepreneur) ( German: Betriebsführer ) in order to increase mutual trust within the collective of the enterprise . [1] Advisers were elected by secret ballot, but the list of candidates was compiled by the leader of the company and a supervisor ( German Betriebsobmann ) from the German Labor Front . The councils did not play an active role in labor relations , and served only as a platform for discussing working conditions regulated by the “code of rules of the enterprise” ( German Betriebsordnung ). [2]
In 1934, only 2 percent of enterprises and companies were required to create a trust council, but this affected 46.2 percent of workers. [3]
See also
- German labor law
Notes
- ↑ Labor organization law, cited in: Tim Mason (1993): Social Policy in the Third Reich.
- ↑ Labor organization law, cited in: Tim Mason (1993): Social Policy in the Third Reich.
- ↑ Matthias Frese (1992): Nationalsozialistische Vertrauensräte. Zur Betriebspolitik im “Dritten Reich” . Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, Vol. XLIII, Issue 4-5, p.283 | 175 KB]