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An important amendment to the Israeli Severance Pay Law was enacted recently to facilitate the process of redeeming the severance pay of employees who died during the period prescribed in the amendment.

Important amendment to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law in Israel protects employees of service contractors and obligates customers ordering services to address incidents of sexual harassment committed on their premises, even if the employees are employees of service contractors and not of manpower contractors.

The purpose of reducing convalescence days and freezing the pay rate in 2024 is to budget benefits for reservists.

A recently signed general permit makes it easier for employees to make up for missed work hours due to constraints deriving from the absence of their spouses or the other parent of their children as a result of the state of emergency in Israel.

According to the update, which will take effect on April 1, 2024, the minimum wage for a full-time job will be ILS 5,880.02. The increase will also be reflected in the sums of social contributions to provident and severance pay funds, vacation pay, overtime pay, and sick pay.

The provisions of the collective bargaining agreement came into effect upon the promulgation of the extension order. These provisions include directives regarding employee dismissals, rights of spouses of reservists, and more.

An extension order applies the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement and regulates the payment of wages to employees who were unable to report to work due to the Swords of Iron War.

Employers must be diligent about complying with Israeli labor law and case law when dismissing employees, even during layoffs and reorganization processes, including employees’ statutory rights to a dismissal hearing with their lawyer present.

From now on, recipients of contract workers’ services must periodically review the wages paid to the service contractor’s employees working on their premises, set up a mechanism for clarifying workers’ grievances, and fulfill a series of other obligations designed to protect contract workers’ rights.

The Israeli National Labor Court awarded ILS 300,000 to the employee after a regional labor court awarded the employee only ILS 60,000.

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a document presenting its position and recommendations on the privacy protection aspects pertinent to waivers of medical confidentiality and disclosures of medical information during the hiring process.

Many employers in Israel calculated the daily travel cost according to the monthly pass. As a result of the reform employers may be required to recalculate the cost of their employees’ daily reimbursement.