"Fly from here Russia stinks": threatened by its colleagues - and you will receive millions
A contractor broke a strike, employees of the Israel Ports Company frightened her and she suffered post-trauma: "I was afraid they would lynch me."
The compensation will be divided between the National Insurance Institute and the Israeli ports
David Rosenthal
17/05/2022
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 15:56
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Israel Ports and the National Insurance Institute will pay compensation of about NIS 2 million to a software engineer, a contractor, who "broke a strike" and suffered post-trauma after the employees of the Israel Ports Company tried to intimidate her so that she would return with them.
The lawsuit filed in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court through attorney Ravit Kalchman Lewinsky of the Markman & Tomshin Law Office shows that the plaintiff was employed for 10 years through a contractor company that provided computer services at the Israel Ports Company's main office.
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NIS 1.3 million from the National Insurance Institute and NIS 700,000 from Israeli ports (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Adv. Ravit Kalchman Lewinsky from Markman and Tomshin (Photo: Yachz)
About 5 years ago in the morning as part of her work, she was caught in an assault incident accompanied by physical and verbal violence by employees of the striking Israeli ports company.
Since she works as a contractor she was told she had to work as usual.
When workers noticed she was working as usual, they decided to scare her and do everything she could to leave the office and warned her not to "break the strike."
They entered her office, "armed" with whistles, shouted at her and whistled loudly for several minutes.
During the incident, employees surrounded the plaintiff while one of the managers shouted and threatened her: "You have finished my career with me! Get out of here! Fly away, the garbage of Russia stinks."
At one point, the rioting workers thought she was photographing them while shouting, "Throw her the phone away."
Later, they threw away her cellphone, keyboard and mouse.
The worker fled to the bathroom at the end of the main corridor, while during her escape the striking port workers stood on either side of the corridor.
They cursed at her and one of them even hit her in the back using a sign he waved.
The engineer, who feared that if she stayed in the bathroom, the workers would "lynch" her, called her husband who called the police and she enlisted the help of one of the contractor's workers to get to a room from which a shirt was worn by the police.
Since that day, the contractor has been suffering from post-trauma, which manifests itself in, among other things, insomnia and flashbacks from those events, and has difficulty functioning.
The Israel Ports Company claimed, among other things, in the written defense that prior to the incident, the company informed the contractor's employees in advance that the committee members would come to the company's offices and ask the employees to 'contain the incident'.
During the incident, committee members went through all the floors in the building to make sure they did not break a strike when they were equipped with signs, whistles and a megaphone.
This, according to the management, in order to 'promote' the resolution of the conflict.
According to the Israel Ports Company, the engineer had a 'contributing guilt' to the incident because she could take a break, leave the room or work.
As part of a settlement agreement between the law firm Markman and Tomshin, in the absence of the employee, and the Israel Ports Company, it was determined that the Israel Ports Company will pay the contractor employee compensation in the amount of NIS 700,000.
This is in addition to the benefits paid to the employee by the National Insurance Institute in the amount of NIS 1.3 million.
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Port Authority
Post Trauma