Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS
Israeli kashrut supervisors protested changes in their working conditions Wednesday in a demonstration before the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem.
The kashrut supervisors, who were employed directly by the State of Israel, are now instead required to work for an outsourcing firm, and say that their salaries have dropped 50 percent as a result.
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The salaries of kashrut supervisors (mashgichim) are notoriously low, even to begin with, according to several family members of those currently employed in the field, and who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
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