Likud and the Minimum Wage, They Feel Pretty and………………
“Mr and Mrs Netanyahu under fire over maid abuse. Already at the centre of unwelcome media attention over claims she mistreated a maid, Israel's first lady Sara Netanyahu is facing another lawsuit from a housekeeper, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said on Monday. The case was filed over two months ago but the court imposed a gag order, at the request of the housekeeper who made the complaint, the mass-circulation paper reported. While no details of the case were given, the revelation is certain to cause further embarrassment to hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has tried in vain to get the media to stay out of his family affairs. In the first lawsuit which came to public attention earlier this month, housekeeper Lillian Peretz claimed that while in Netanyahu's employ, she was made to shower and change her clothes several times a day and to compliment the first lady, telling her "she was pretty and smart."…… Netanyahu "piled on her impossible tasks, tyrannised her and screamed at her... insulted her femininity... until her mental and physical collapse."The 44-year-old mother of four claimed she was paid less than the minimum wage……….”
She should have known the Likudniks don’t believe in “minimum wages”. Like the Republican right, they believe it creates unemployment. Near-starvation while working is considered better than unemployment and near-starvation while on welfare. They are also known for a history of financial corruption among their leaders, from Sharon on to the rest. I wonder how the legal (Israeli) proceedings against Lieberman are coming and when he will be indicted and tried. Talking here about Avigdor the extreme right-wing Israeli foreign minister not Joe the plain right-wing US senator.
Welcome to the Middle East, where the help is often abused and underpaid.
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