Budget day

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The Haushaltstag (including housework , informally House Women's Day) was in Germany until the end of the 20th century a paid, non-working day on which an employee is working in the household could care and other family matters, without having to take vacation days.

Household day was granted monthly and almost exclusively to women.

history

German Empire in the time of National Socialism

During the National Socialist era , the 1939 budget day was introduced by the National Socialists as a monthly laundry day for the benefit of women committed to the war. It only applied to non-Jewish women. In October 1943 he was given legal status for all (non-Jewish) gainfully employed women.

German occupation

At the instigation of the DKP-DRP , the budget day 1947/1948 was reintroduced in several West German states.

Federal Republic until 1990

In the Federal Republic of Germany , the household day only applied to women in Bremen , Hamburg , Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia . However, with the introduction of the five-day week, its importance decreased.

In 1979, the budget day was declared unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court because of the unequal treatment of both sexes . The draft of a Working Hours Act of May 25, 1987 submitted by the Federal Government provided for in § 25 (2) to override the corresponding regulations of the federal states on household working days; it was not formally repealed until 1994 when the Working Hours Act came into force.

GDR

In the GDR , household day was legally introduced in 1952 for married women. From 1965 it also applied to unmarried women with children under the age of 18, and in 1977 the right to the household day was also granted to unmarried women from the age of 40 without children and in some cases also to men (single with children or with a sick wife under certain conditions). The household day was generally only granted to full-time employees.

Federal Republic from 1990

After reunification , the budget day was abolished in all federal states by the Working Hours Act with effect from July 1, 1994.

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  1. ↑ See: Carola Sachse: The housework day: Justice and equality in East and West. Wallstein, Göttingen 2002.
  2. ↑ Carola Sachse: The Housework Day: Justice and Equal Rights in East and West 1939-1994. Wallstein Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89244-508-7 .
  3. ↑ draft law of the federal government. Draft of a Working Hours Act (ArbZG). Printed matter 11/360. (PDF; 1.0 MB) Retrieved June 26, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Art. 19 of the Act on the Standardization and Flexibility of Working Time Law (Arbeitszeitrechtsgesetz - ArbZRG) - repeal of household working day regulations