THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has filed a complaint against the Israeli government for “blatant violations” of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Protection of Wages Convention.

The complaint highlights the obligation of Israeli authorities to redress and remedy a range of abuses, including unpaid wages and withheld benefits for more than 200,000 Palestinian workers employed in Israel.

These abuses have led to millions of dollars of lost income, causing severe financial insecurity, economic distress, deprivation of basic services, and widespread hardship for the affected workers and their families, who have no access to judicial remedies, the ITUC said.