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TA Labor Court rejects IDF service as work requirement
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent

The Tel Aviv Labor Tribunal has fined a firm NIS 10,000 for placing a wanted add for workers stipulating as a criterion that they prove IDF or national service.
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In the precedent setting decision, Judge Varda Wirt-Livne ruled that the company had violated the equal opportunity law. Since military experience was not necessary for the job, the judge ruled that the company was guilty of discrimination.

Attorney Michal Markowitz-Belcher of the Ministry of Labor complained the firm Tafkid Plus published two ads for secretarial jobs, both saying military service was a prerequisite.

The judge wrote that "the implementation of the requirement harms the concept of equality between Jews and Arabs and between secular Jews and ultra-Orthodox Jews [who often do not serve in the IDF] in the labor market," the judge wrote in her decision.

The Tribunal also pointed out that the request for national service as an alternative to military service suggests that "the security consideration is not real but was meant to establish a standard which identifies those who don't serve in the army - Arabs and ultra-Orthodox.
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