Secretary-General of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine, Shaher Saad, called on the Zionist occupation to grant Palestinian workers full wages during their forced unemployment period after declaring a state of emergency.
Saad stressed that this is a right conferred by international labor regulations, in particular International Labor Convention No. (17) on compensation for injured workers, the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians, including migrant workers from an occupied territory, and International Labor Convention No. (45) of 18 December 1990, on protecting the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families, and the Israeli Labor Law.
Saad stressed that the occupation is obligated to treat Palestinian workers on an equal basis with Israeli workers and migrant workers in Israel, in light of the current emergency, due to the spread of the new Coronavirus, without any detraction from it, because it constitutes the minimum legal measures regulating the relationship between workers and their employers during emergency situations.
This came within similar messages sent by “Saad” to the Palestinian political level, and to Guy Rider, Director-General of the International Labor Organization, whose exhibition indicated that “After reviewing the international labor regulations and reviewing Israeli law, it was found that they unanimously agreed to grant workers all their material rights.”
Social law and Israeli law did not fail to mention that breaching its provisions is considered a criminal violation that requires accountability.
Saad indicated that the value of the compensation due to workers is 452 million shekels a month, and it is due to be paid to workers, under penalty of demanding it from the governmental employment department and the Israeli Payments Department, according to the following mechanism:
21.000.850 million shekels are due for the benefit of 68.000 workers, who work in the Israeli labor market and 19.400 workers and those working in colonies, and this means that the total claims of workers to their employers, under the item of compensation for forced unemployment, is two billion and one hundred million shekels at 250 shekels per day.
Saad added, “Israeli law regulates the process of paying national insurance benefits for workers in Israel, where the payment of those benefits is divided between the employer and the worker, the employer’s share is paid by the operator (and is not deducted from the employee’s salary), and the employee’s share is deducted from his wages and paid monthly to the National Insurance Authority.”
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