"The settlement factories are manned primarily by Palestinian labourers, who work in miserable conditions", says Fathi Nasser, legal advisor with the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU). “The employers of these factories disregard labour laws and should the worker complain, he will be dismissed”. According to Nasser, as it is so difficult to obtain authorisation to take a case before an Israeli court, providing real legal protection to these workers is very complicated...Until 2007, Palestinians in the settlements were paid according to an out-dated Jordanian law on minimum wage…“Officially, Palestinian workers in the West Bank’s industrial zones are entitled to the protection of Israeli labour laws but employers find many ways to avoid giving Palestinians their rights”, DWRC’s coordinator of the Legal Aid and Human Rights Project, Hwayda told us…Kav LaOved recently sponsored a strike for the workers of the Sol Or gas manufacturing factory near Tulkarem…Workers are receiving neither minimum wage nor paid holidays, and are forbidden from using the bathroom in the factory, which is reserved for Israeli workers. One worker has cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals…[also refers to a case concerning a paint factory in an industrial settlement near Jericho]