Jewish employees in Germany are not entitled to holidays, according to a ruling of a Cologne court, which is praised by the newspaper Koelnischer Zeitung as “a masterly verdict.”
The paper says several Jews sued their employers in Cologne for refusing them the holidays to which they were legally entitled. The court rejected the claim, ruling holidays were only for members of the “Gemeinschaft der Schaffenden” (creative community), to which Jews, by their nature, could not belong.
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