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A serious report reveals: severe discrimination in employment in Judea and Samaria | Israel Today

2023-02-20T10:30:57.954Z


The National Histadrut reveals how the employees of the administrative staff at Ariel University are discriminated against in terms of their employment • The reason: the university is located in Judea and Samaria compared to the other universities • At the same time, they demanded to regulate the salary and conditions of the employees of the administrative staff: "Discrimination harms diversity and academic strength"


A serious report by the National Histadrut reveals how the administrative staff at Ariel University are discriminated against in terms of their employment. The discrimination, accuses the National Histadrut, is due, among other things, to the university's location in Judea and Samaria.

"In December 2012, the Ariel University Center in Samaria became a university. This decision was accompanied by continuous opposition from academic parties due to budgetary, ideological and other reasons," the report states.

"The opposition did not remain only at the mothers' door of the heads of the universities, but also manifested itself in institutional and budgetary discrimination."

The National Histadrut agrees that even today, after recurring labor disputes from year to year, the dramatic gap between the salaries of Ariel University employees and the other universities in Israel remains the same.

"The workers' representation is firm in its opinion to put an end to this discrimination, and emphasizes that in this case it is not 'only' a question of harming their livelihood and the right to equality, but also substantial damage to the university as well as to settlement and resilience in the area."

Ariel University // Photo: Yehoshua Yosef,

In the report, the members of the National Histadrut state that in 2020 the average salary among the administrative staff at all universities was NIS 15,500, while at Ariel University the average salary was only 10,000, and among the administrative staff employees unionized in the collective agreement the average salary was NIS 8,200. "Also in the other parameters, the employees of the administrative staff at Ariel University are discriminated against - salary rating, salary update, seniority bonus, overtime, pension, training funds, clothing, vacation and work arrangements."

Also the ratio of jobs per 1,000 students - at Ariel is 37.9 compared to 58.4 at all other universities, which creates burnout and stress among the employees.

Another thing in which the university is discriminated against is the gap between the number of students studying at the institution compared to the quotas allocated to it.

Students being tested // Photo illustration: Gettyimages,

The National Histadrut blames that it is not only a problem of discrimination in an educational institution, but also a serious damage to the periphery.

"Ariel University is the largest and most significant employer in Samaria. It is an entire ecosystem that feeds all the residents of the region. Damage to this institution has and will have serious implications for the settlement."

Even today, the university suffers from a "disadvantaging perception, including antagonism and boycotts from certain parties against it. The boycott is cross-cutting, from the outside and the inside, and to this is added institutional and budgetary discrimination," the report states. brain drain, and may create inferiority vis-à-vis the establishment, academia and industry."

"The wrongful discrimination against the university is in terms of a violation of the constitutional rights of its students and employees, as discrimination on the basis of a group. The founding values ​​of the State of Israel, as laid down in the Declaration of Independence, were based on the denial of discrimination and the pursuit of equality before the law among all citizens of the country, while over the years, equality has been established As a constitutional principle in Israeli law.

"The reasons for the discrimination against Ariel University are mainly for the reasons of the political position or out of the self-interest to exclude it from the centers of power and money. At the same time, the discrimination on behalf of the salary department, as a governmental arm, is particularly serious, since the salary of the employees of this university is not an issue that involves interpretation or subject to consideration, but Demands an equitable application of the budgeting of this group according to the long-standing policies, agreements and practice in relation to the other public institutions in the same category."

The National Histadrut demands that the salary and conditions of the employees of the administrative staff of Ariel University be immediately regulated, while comparing them to the other universities.

"The ongoing discrimination against Ariel University and its employees is neither constitutional nor moral, it harms diversity and academic strength, students and workers' rights, weakens the settlement, leads to an occupational collapse of the largest employer in Judea and Samaria, and is completely contrary to the values ​​of the state and the Zionist act," they conclude.

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Source: israelhayom

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