An Israeli company steals a page from the Saudi/UAE playbook:
AN Israeli company has required thousands of Chinese workers to sign a contract promising not to have sex with Israelis or try to convert them, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Maybe they’re just worried that "Once you go Asian, Jews are out of the equation." =)
According to the document, male workers cannot come into contact with Israeli women — including prostitutes — become their lovers or marry them, spokesman Rafi Yaffe said. He said there was nothing illegal about the requirement and no investigation had been opened against the company.
The labourers are also forbidden in the contract from engaging in any religious or political activity. Those who violate the agreement will be sent back to China.
About 260,000 foreigners work in Israel, having replaced Palestinian labourers during three years of fighting.
Though I think people should be allowed to enter into whatever types of contracts they wish, as long as no harm to others is involved, I have to wonder why the company would do this. It increases their labour costs, as prospective employees would rather work at other companies which don’t impose such onerous restrictions. Furthermore, it will likely lead to massive problems with worker discipline: bachelor societies (such as the Chinatowns of the 19th century in the USA) aren’t generally noted for their stability or lack of crime.
What makes this even more confusing is that there seems to be no real religious justification for the clause in the contract (edit: not law, thanks gc for catching the slip), unlike in surrounding Islamic countries which impose similar requirements on their heathen guest workers. Unless the company in question expects this action will generate positive publicity for them, I can’t see why a business, whose purpose, after all, is to generate profit, would take such an action. I suppose it’s an effective method of preventing guest-worker programs from mutating into mass permanent immigration, by deliberately keeping the workers from assimilating into local society. Though of course I doubt it’s a method that could be successfully implemented anywhere else …
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