Original scientific paper

Employer - employee relations in Jewish law

Kotel DaDon orcid.org/0000-0002-3542-3754

Abstract

This article analyses the employer-employee relations in Jewish law. The author explores the practices of these relationships in Biblical stories, Laban’s treatment of Jacob and Jacob’s behavior towards Laban, as well as in rabbinic literature from Talmudic times until today. Among the questions the author is researching are: payment of lower wages than the norm, delay in payment, adhering to a labor contract, local custom, protection of the employee, loyalty and dedication of the worker during working time and after, honesty and integrity of the worker and of the employer, termination of the employment relationship, the responsibility of the employee in tort, weekly rest and limitation of working hours, treatment of foreign workers and, in the end, the value of work and human dignity. The work analyses these questions through many sources of Rabbinical literature from the Talmudic times through the Middle ages until modern times. The literature is translated for the first time into the Croatian language from Hebrew and Aramaic by the author.

Keywords

Bible; Talmud; Halaha; Mitzvah; Employer; Employee

Hrčak ID:

148770

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148770

Publication date:

30.11.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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