All over a bid for some aid from the EU, a young Palestinian woman was fired when she called her employer, Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy, early this morning to inform them that she was ill and would not be able to work.
With a legitimate clearance from a doctor to excuse her from work, the young woman found that the center had fired her because of her illness in an email sent by a coworker. One of her ex-coworkers commented that this was because of an EU grant proposal deadline for Monday and that she was busy.
She also commented that she had nothing to do that day and looked bad in front of the chief board of director when they could not produce a final copy for review.
Thus instead of taking responsibility or maintaining transparency, when the ill young woman called to find out what was going on, she was met with a screeching employer who justified the termination according to illness.
"This is not punishment, this is because this is the most important funding opportunity, and we may miss it now," she said.
The report was practically complete and only needed review and possible further editing.
What is interesting about PCPD is that they champion themselves as promoters of parliamentary democracy and democratic principle. While only 4 individuals work in the main office, with some foreign volunteers visiting occasionally, they claim to have functioning programs throughout the West Bank.
Yet their programming is merely lecture based, and while hundreds of thousands are given as grants, it is obscure exactly how they wish to influence democratic reform when it is inconsistent and secluded besides their harsh treatment of employees.
The action taken by PCPD against their employee, who had worked a few days extra to when she would officially begin employment, was simply demeaning.
They had her come in immediately without contract, and before the young woman could see a contract and had worked 5 full days with some overtime, they had terminated her not for the sake of the grant (which still has time to be produced) but because of personal reputations and how stupid their management looked in not being able to responsibly coordinate when an employee is sick.
What is interesting is that the grant itself is about promoting democracy and highlights the rights of women and labor workers as a plus. With insults being hurled unto the ill woman by her employer, it is clear that the intention is not to safeguard those principles inherent in the call for project proposals by the EU, rather it is in securing money that only God knows is spent.
While Palestinian law protects its employees, and by law they are given days off if they are ill, PCPD went forth to break the laws it supposedly values and cherishes.
While NGOs claim to humanize and cherish the human family network, they are rather vicious.
This is just one example of how manipulative NGOs can be within the Palestinians territories.While they claim to be promoting the participation of "civil society" they at times clearly demonstrate the division, manipulation, dehumanization, and lack of empathy these NGOs have done so well to market and exploit.
With a legitimate clearance from a doctor to excuse her from work, the young woman found that the center had fired her because of her illness in an email sent by a coworker. One of her ex-coworkers commented that this was because of an EU grant proposal deadline for Monday and that she was busy.
She also commented that she had nothing to do that day and looked bad in front of the chief board of director when they could not produce a final copy for review.
Thus instead of taking responsibility or maintaining transparency, when the ill young woman called to find out what was going on, she was met with a screeching employer who justified the termination according to illness.
"This is not punishment, this is because this is the most important funding opportunity, and we may miss it now," she said.
The report was practically complete and only needed review and possible further editing.
What is interesting about PCPD is that they champion themselves as promoters of parliamentary democracy and democratic principle. While only 4 individuals work in the main office, with some foreign volunteers visiting occasionally, they claim to have functioning programs throughout the West Bank.
Yet their programming is merely lecture based, and while hundreds of thousands are given as grants, it is obscure exactly how they wish to influence democratic reform when it is inconsistent and secluded besides their harsh treatment of employees.
The action taken by PCPD against their employee, who had worked a few days extra to when she would officially begin employment, was simply demeaning.
They had her come in immediately without contract, and before the young woman could see a contract and had worked 5 full days with some overtime, they had terminated her not for the sake of the grant (which still has time to be produced) but because of personal reputations and how stupid their management looked in not being able to responsibly coordinate when an employee is sick.
What is interesting is that the grant itself is about promoting democracy and highlights the rights of women and labor workers as a plus. With insults being hurled unto the ill woman by her employer, it is clear that the intention is not to safeguard those principles inherent in the call for project proposals by the EU, rather it is in securing money that only God knows is spent.
100,000 Euros for a bunch of lectures? Is PCPD hiring Oprah?
While Palestinian law protects its employees, and by law they are given days off if they are ill, PCPD went forth to break the laws it supposedly values and cherishes.
While NGOs claim to humanize and cherish the human family network, they are rather vicious.
This is just one example of how manipulative NGOs can be within the Palestinians territories.While they claim to be promoting the participation of "civil society" they at times clearly demonstrate the division, manipulation, dehumanization, and lack of empathy these NGOs have done so well to market and exploit.
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