Deri lends his voice to stewardesses’ protest

22 June 2015, 7:07 pm

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Minister of Economy Aryeh Deri joins the stewardesses’ protest and turns to two senior Economy Ministry staffers — the director of equality in the work place and the director of employment security — asking them to act to “eliminate these norms from work places.”

Stewardesses recently voiced their anger in response to a directive from El Al, Israel’s national carrier, forcing air hostesses to wear high heels.

According to the minister, “Unless this is about significant security risks, for me this amounts to nothing less than abuse in the workplace and discrimination against women in its worst form, since such duties do not exist for the rest of the public.”