Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/331

Paragraph 1- If one hires workers and asks them to come early or stay late in a place where they do not have the custom to get up early or stay late, he may not force them, even if he adds to their wages, because he did not make the condition at the time he hired them. If there was no custom in the city or he said is hiring them based on Torah law, the workers would be required to leave their house at sunrise and work until the stars come up. On Friday he would leave early enough to reach his home so that he can fill barrels of water, roast a small fish and light the candles. If there was no city custom, but most of the residents are from a place that has a custom, we would follow the city custom of their place of origin. If one went from a place where the custom was to get up early and leave late to a place where the custom was not to do so, or vice versa, we would follow the custom of the place where the workers were hired. Something is not called a custom until it is common and done many times. Something that was only done one or two times, however, is not considered a custom.

Paragraph 2- In a place where the custom is to feed workers, he must feed his workers. If the custom is to feed figs, dates or something similar, he should feed them whatever the custom is.

Paragraph 3- If one hired a worker and told him he would pay him like one or two city residents, we would calculate the highest wage and lowest wage, and he would give him the average. For example, if the highest was six and the lowest was four, he would give him five.