DEUT1379 The workman normally expects to be paid on time, as Scripture points out [this verse]: "He sets his heart on it." Hence an employer should never hire a workman where he knows for sure that he will be unable to pay the hire on time, unless he notified the worker before hand and the workman accepted his terms, or else the local usage is to pay workmen on market days when money is abundant--as explained at the end of chapter 9. For this reason, an employer intending to leave on a journey, who will not return to pay wages on time, should arrange, before he leaves, that the hire be available for his employee when payment falls due.