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Home Workers: According to section 2 subsection 1 of the Home Working Act 1961 (Federal Law Gazette 1961/105, Heimarbeitsgesetz) home workers are persons manufacturing, processing or packaging goods in their own home or at any other place of work chosen by themselves, by order and for the account of their employers and without carrying on a trade. The law also covers intermediaries, i.e. persons carrying on a trade and working for their employer under the same conditions as home workers. They are held equal to home workers unless they employ more than 2 workers they are not related to. Because their status is generally similar to that of regular employees, the Home Working Act provides for standardised regulations for the protection of employees. Both home workers and intermediaries are entitled to pay for work done on a holiday, paid vacation, time off work for the care of a sick relative and continued remuneration in case of sickness, etc. Termination of employment is subject to certain periods of notice. Home workers are also entitled to compensation for dismissal in accordance with the employees' act.