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January 15, 2017

Privacy and Data Protection Law

On 17/01 Barnea together with the ACC, will host an event on Privacy and Data Protection Law affecting employees in the workplace.We will lecture on the Israeli Privacy Aspects.

December 15, 2016

End of Year Employment Law Summary to impact upon 2017

Adv. Marie Tsion, Head of Employment Department at Barnea was interviewed by The Marker. Marie presented the most important developments in labor law which will impact upon 2017. Marie commented that employee's right to privacy in the workplace was the focus of discussion in respect of 2017 and will continue to be discussed in the coming year.

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December 12, 2016

Round-table Regarding the Employment of Arab Interns and Lawyers

Adv. Micky Barnea will participate in a round-table meeting with other leading law firms regarding the employment of Arab interns and lawyers. The meeting was initiated by the Deans of the Universities' Faculty of Law.

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December 6, 2016

Update on Employee Rights – Minimum Wage, Annual Paid Leave, Pension

Three updates to employee rights (Minimum Wage – Annual Paid Leave – Pension) came into effect on July 2016. The following is important news about the next update to employee rights, which is expected to come into effect on 1.1.2017.

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November 9, 2016

Voluntary Retirement Program

Following reports on the voluntary retirement programs that are promoted by the Israel’s largest banks, our Head of the Employment Department at Barnea was interviewed by Globes. She commented that a successful voluntary retirement program is one which creates a situation where the employer offers retirement to certain workers, without harming the functioning of the organization, which often relies on the knowledge and experience of the veterans.

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November 8, 2016

Barnea & Co. Represented Hadad Brothers

Our firm represented Hadad Brothers, Worldwide Judaica Artists, in a claim by a service provider with an independent business, that after 17 years of engagement argued for a recognition of an employee-employer relationship and filed a claim for various social benefits in the sum of 1.5 Million NIS. After 2.5 years of legal proceedings, the court this week denied the claim in full.

September 1, 2016

Fathers Granted Right to Paternity Leave - Marie Tsion for Walla

Adv. Marie Tzion, Partner and Head of the Employment department, published an opinion article in Walla Business, following the recently passed amendment, which granted fathers the right to paternity leave at the expense of already existing leave entitlements.

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August 29, 2016

Extension Order Increasing the Allocations to Pension Insurance and Amendment to the Control of Financial Services

After about a year of uncertainty about the pension insurance allocation ratios according to Amendment number 12 to the Control of Financial Services (Provident Funds) Law of August 2015, the matter has recently been resolved.

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August 25, 2016

Human Resources Forum Half Year Event

Our Head of Employment Department will participate in the Human Resources Forum Half Year Event taking place on September 14th. She will discuss the terms of employment in the weekly rest period.

March 10, 2016

Raising of the retirement age for women- Globes magazine

Our head of the employment department, was interviewed by Globes magazine (in Hebrew) regarding the raising of the retirement age for women "this move is important both for promoting gender equality and for the status of women in the labor market, but I believe that the Israeli labor market is not ready for it".

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February 21, 2016

Relocation Seminar for employers

Barnea is pleased to be hosting a seminar for employers on relocation on March 9, 2016. The seminar will take place at our offices. At the seminar we will discuss various aspects of the relocation process. Among the speakers will be Zvi Kan-Tor, partner at Kan-Tor Acco, as well as Michal Daliot and Hanni Ben-Shimol from Relocation. The seminar is being held in cooperation with Kan-Tor Acoo and Relocation office.

January 7, 2016

Employment law - Year End Summary

The year 2015 was characterized by legislative initiatives and interesting rulings relating to the labor market in Israel –employers became obligated to send written notices to job candidates about whether or not they have been accepted for employment, the issue of soccer games on Saturday and more.

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December 28, 2015

2015 employment laws: important rulings made this year

The leading Israeli newspaper Globes, interviewed employment experts, including our Head of Employment Department in order to discuss the most influential rulings in this area.

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November 8, 2015

The Rise of Employees’ Unionization and Consultation Obligation during Transactions

The Collective Agreements Law provides that the union must represent the majority of unionized employees to whom the collective bargaining agreement applies, and no less than one-third of the total employees to whom the agreement applies. The union must notify the employer of its claim to be recognised as a representing body and the employer may examine the signatures of employees joining the union.

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November 4, 2015

What you need to know about employment contracts

Employee rights in Israel are regulated by a long list of laws, extension orders and collective bargaining agreements. The perception of labor law is that it is primarily protective of employees vis-à-vis employers, and indeed, a basic rule of law states that employee contracts cannot derogate from rights prescribed in laws, extension orders and collective bargaining agreements, but may only supplement them

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November 2, 2015

Our Firm will lecture at the Upper Galilee Human Resources Managers Forum

On 11/18/15 our firm will lecture in a Human Resources Managers Forum at Caesarea. The forum includes CEO’s and HR managers of leading companies and meets once a month. We will give a lecture on the importance of labor agreement.

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October 29, 2015

"Dos and don'ts" in employees agreements: recommended modifications in light of Court decisions.

Barnea 's head of Labour department was interviewed by Globes. We described what employers should be including in employee agreements.

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September 7, 2015

Lexology Navigator - Employment & Labour

We were chosen to be the author of the Israeli chapter of "Lexology Navigator - Employment Labour". In this exclusive chapter, we provide a market and regulatory overview in respect of Israel. Lexology is a web-based service that provides company law departments and law firms with a depth of free practical know-how that would be impossible to produce internally. Lexology has become the pre-eminent online source of legal news, updates and analysis for more than 242,000 lawyers worldwide.

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August 20, 2015

Which employee has a right to have a day off and when – and who must go to work?

Marie Tsion, head of employment department, was interviewed by Globes.

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June 25, 2015

Employment of youths in the summer vacation

As an expert in Labor law, Marie Tsion was interviewed in the economic section of "Yedioth Ahronot" regarding the employment of youths in the summer vacation. Marie elaborated on the relevant requirements for an employer who decides to hire youths.

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