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Israeli diplomats in 'jeans and sandals' wage protest

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The new dress code for striking Israeli diplomats Israeli diplomats have started wearing jeans and sandals to work as part of a labour dispute over pay conditions, foreign ministry officials have said.
Diplomatic employees are demanding wages on par with their colleagues at the defence and intelligence agencies.
The strike could disrupt PM Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to the US.
The workers' pay committee has urged employees at Israel's Washington embassy not to make arrangements for his visit in July, local reports say.
According to the committee, foreign ministry employees are paid half of what the defence ministry staff and members of the intelligence community who serve abroad receive, even though they do the same amount of work.
Dressing down The dispute - now entering its sixth month - is becoming increasingly public.
Several employees of the foreign ministry have abandoned the normal suit-and-tie dress code, and were coming to work in jeans and sandals, an official told the BBC on condition of anonymity.
The partial strike has also extended to the foreign ministry's visitors' department, which is in charge of rolling out the red carpet for foreign dignitaries, the official said.
On Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon was forced to welcome visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov without the customary ceremony because no-one had organised one, the AFP news agency reports.
Mr Lavrov is due to meet top Israeli officials in Jerusalem before travelling to Ramallah for talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the last day of his two-day visit.
According to the workers' pay committee, foreign ministry employees are paid half of what the defence ministry staff and members of the intelligence community who serve abroad receive, even though they do the same amount of work.

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Israeli diplomats sport jeans, sandals in wage protest
(AFP) – 23 hours ago
JERUSALEM — Israeli diplomats have started wearing jeans and sandals to work and caused a series of diplomatic faux pas in a protest over salary conditions, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday.
The increasingly public dispute has compounded Israel's diplomatic woes at a time when it is struggling to contain the backlash from a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid fleet last month that frayed relations with key ally Turkey.
"For several days now foreign ministry employees have come to work in jeans and sandals, without wearing ties, to protest their treatment," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"They are following orders from the employees' committee, which has accused the treasury of dragging its feet in six months of salary negotiations."
The labour dispute has also seen employees shirk routine duties, with some visiting foreign dignitaries recently being abandoned by their Israeli ministry drivers and forced to ask their embassies to send cars.
On Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon had to welcome visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov without a customary ceremony because no one bothered to organise one.
And Uzi Arad, national security advisor to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had to cancel a trip to Moscow because the Israeli embassy there said it could not accommodate him.
The dispute comes in the wake of the botched May 31 seizure of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters, during which helicopter-borne Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists, one a dual US citizen.
The incident severely strained relations with Turkey, once a close Muslim ally, and sparked international outrage over Israel's four-year blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

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以色列外交官抗議薪資 穿牛仔褲涼鞋上班

更新日期:2010/06/30 10:05
以色列外交人員抗議薪資不公，因此穿牛仔褲及涼鞋上班。
以色列駐外人員抗議薪水只有國防部及情報局駐外人員的一半，因此以服裝表達 不滿，而這項抗議行動可能會影響下個月，以色列總理「尼坦雅胡」的訪美行程。
根 據以色列勞工薪資委員會的說法，外交官對於同樣是駐外人員，但卻同工不同酬極為不滿。
這起爭議已經吵了六個月，但直到最近才浮上檯面。不少外交部員工也開始不穿西裝、不打領帶，改穿 牛載仔褲涼鞋上班，其中包括部分禮賓司的員工。
這星期一，以色列外交部次長「阿雅龍」在迎接到訪的俄羅斯外長「拉夫洛夫」時，因為沒有穿著體 面的禮賓司人員協助，「阿雅龍」沒有以正式慣例的禮儀接待「拉夫洛夫」。



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Goto work in underwear better still?

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they should hire a singpie contracter to send them peanuts. problem solved!!