unskilled worker

Many of the roughly 178,000 Palestinian laborers with Israeli work permits often spend a good portion of their earnings — roughly $100 a day for an unskilled worker, $300 for those with specialized skills — in local shops.

Demir is still embarrassed when he remembers lying to classmates from academic families that his father was a chemical technician, ashamed of his real job as an unskilled worker at a chemical company.

An unskilled worker could join the local of his choice, but as union leaders expected, members sorted themselves along ethnic lines.

Europe is great for us, the educated, privileged, mobile and gainfully employed, but do you really feel like saying “Europe is great!” with a straight face to the unemployed, unskilled worker in the post-industrial north of England, the southern European graduate who can’t find a job, or the Roma child or the refugee stuck in a camp?

For an unskilled worker, the limit is 10 percent of the first month’s wage, which means that the worker must receive 90 percent of wages paid.