Court rejects appeal
צילום: ויז'ואלפוטוס
Court: Palestinians can’t sue Israeli employer
Eighty-one Palestinian workers blocked from suing their Israeli employer after Be'er Sheva Labor Court rejects their appeal to file lawsuit without paying NIS 230,000 fee
Eighty-one Palestinian workers have been blocked from suing their Israeli employer after the Be'er Sheva Labor Court rejected their appeal to file a lawsuit without paying the demanded fees.
Recently the court’s registrar ruled that the 81 workers from the Gaza Strip who sued their employer for damages of NIS 23 million must pay a fee if they want their lawsuit to be arbitrated.
Being that the fee to be charged was set to 1 percent of NIS 23 million in damages they were demanding, ie., NIS 230,000, the Palestinian workers could not afford it, and therefore their charges will be rejected.
The workers did not give up and appealed the decision, but that was rejected as well. The court ruled that it did not find it appropriate to interfere with the registrar’s decision because the prosecutors failed to prove that they did not have the financial means to pay the fee.
The court’s decision was handed down after the Israeli employer from the Erez industrial zone asked, through Attorney Baruch Katzman from the offices of Herzog, Fox, & Neeman, that the fee be collected before the charges against him were arbitrated.
