Papal Visit Purim Millennium Snow in Jer. L'oved's Adi Lacser helps foreign workers protect their rights.
Foreign workers come here to make have a better life - but end up poor, exploited, and persecuted.
She's left her employer, an elderly, crotchety woman, after a year, because she can't stand being yelled at and ordered around anymore. The employer, whose affairs are handled by her daughter, still owes the woman for a year's vacation pay and refuses to make good on the debt. This is a basic entitlement under Israeli law, but it is commonly believed that foreign workers in Israel have no legal rights, and their employers are among the truest believers in this mistaken notion. So Lacser is going to call the crotchety, old woman's daughter. He dials the employer's number, and, speaking in the gentlest, quietest tones, introduces himself, and explains to the woman that, according to the law, she must pay her employee minimum wage, social benefits, holidays, and vacation days.