Quoting%20commentary for Bava Metzia 221:2

לא צריכא דאמר להו שכרכם על בעל הבית

Judah b. Meremar used to instruct his attendant, 'Go and engage labourers for me, and say to them, Your employer is responsible for your wages.' Meremar and Mar Zutra used to engage [labourers] on each other's behalf. Rabbah son of R. Huna said: <i>The market traders of Sura do not transgress [the injunction], The wages of him that is hired shall not abide all night</i> [etc,], because It is well known that they rely upon the market day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore it is implicitly understood and stipulated, as it were, that the worker is not to be paid before. ');">³</span>

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