Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in New York ahead of his address to the United Nations general assembly
Ten global unions have filed a complaint urging Israel to pay back wages for more than 200,000 Palestinian workers deprived of salaries since the start of the war in Gaza. The complaint, lodged at the International Labour Organization on Friday, seeks unpaid wages and withheld benefits for workers employed in Israel before the 7 October attacks there by fighters from Palestinian militant group Hamas.
According to Agence France-Presse , the unions cited “millions of dollars of lost income, causing severe financial insecurity … and widespread hardship for the affected workers and their families, who have no access to judicial remedies”. Israel has ratified the ILO convention on the protection of unpaid wages, which is legally binding on signatories. According to the complaint, 13,000 workers from the Gaza Strip have not been paid for work done before 7 October.
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