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April 16, 2018

April 2018 News Flash – Employment Law

New amendments to the Hours of Work and Rest Law regarding night work and the general permit to engage employees in overtime work.

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April 15, 2018

Executive Compensation in Dual-Listed Israeli Companies

Adv. Micky Barnea, our Managing Partner, was interviewed by Globes on the topic of executive compensation policy in dual-listed Israeli companies.

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March 21, 2018

Extension Order Shortens Work Week

The Israeli Minister of Labor, Haim Katz, has signed lately an extension order shortening the work week in Israel. According to the extension order, the work week will be shortened from 43 hours to 42 hours, without any reduction of pay.

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March 4, 2018

Considering Dismissing an Employee? Five Rules of Thumb to Keep You from Running into Trouble

You have decided to dismiss an employee. Here are five rules of thumb for conducting a hearing proceeding. These are designed to help you through the process, as well as to minimize the risks of lawsuits and employee demands for monetary compensation on the basis of unlawful dismissal.

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February 11, 2018

February 2018 News Flash – Employment Law

New updates regarding safety violations in corporations and change in the retirement age for a person whose child has died.

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February 4, 2018

Employers, Do You Have a Central Severance Pay Fund? You Should Read This

In 2017, the Israel Tax Authority published a circular addressing the use of accumulated balances in central severance pay funds, and many employers began liquidating these severance pay funds. It is important to note that the liquidation of a central severance pay fund also has implications on labor relations with your employees.

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January 8, 2018

Lecture on Legal Issues in the Recruiting Process

Our Head of our Employment Department, is participating today in a training program held by the People Management Association. She will lecture on legal issues in the recruiting process.

November 16, 2017

Privacy in the Workplace - the Use of Cameras

At the end of October 2017, the Privacy Protection Authority published a guideline about the use of surveillance cameras in the workplace and within the framework of employment relations. This guideline does not come as a surprise, as a draft of it was already published last year for public comments.

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November 2, 2017

Minimum Wage Update

On October 30, 2017, an amendment to the Minimum Wage Law was enacted after being approved during the second and third readings in the Knesset.

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October 26, 2017

A Female Employee Notifies She Is Pregnant – A Few Important Facts!

Has one of your employees notified you that she is pregnant? Here are a few points you should know

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October 25, 2017

Lecture: Employment Termination at the Human Resources Conference of the North

Our head of the firm's Employment Department, has been invited to take part in the Human Resources Conference of the North. She will lecture on the proper procedure for dismissing employees.

October 2, 2017

Your Employees Are Beginning to Unionize – What You Need To Know?

Many employers worry about the day they might discover their employees are organizing and joining a labor union. This concern is natural, since an employer used to running its business as it deems fit, and according to its business needs, is not interested in sharing the helm with its employees’ representation.

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September 6, 2017

Marie Tsion to Address the Various Legal Issues of Job Acceptance

Adv. Marie Tsion, Head of the Employment Department, will lecture today at the Human Resources Forum of the North on legal issues related to job acceptance: evaluation centers, refusals, and the law for the prevention of discrimination.

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September 5, 2017

Who Owns Employee-Created Inventions: the Employer or the Employee?

We were interviewed by TheMarker on the subject of who owns the Facebook page of a popular TV program—the host or the network and asserted that all intellectual property created by a worker in the framework of the workplace belongs to the employer.

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September 4, 2017

September 2017 News Flash – Employment Law

Several new updates regarding lifting the corporate veil, calculating severance pay for hourly employees and issuing electronic pay slips.

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August 15, 2017

HR Challenges for Startups

Our Head of the Employment Department, will lecture today to entrepreneurs at advanced stages who are participating in StarTAU's entrepreneurial program. The lecture will focus on recruitment of employees and the various challenges involved in recruiting human resource professionals in start-up companies

July 3, 2017

Must-know labor laws for Israeli teens

Our Head of the Employment Department at Barnea, in an article for The Marker on the subject of youth employment during the summer vacation.

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May 11, 2017

Marie Tsion to participate in Human Resources Forum Half Year Event

Adv. Marie Tsion, Head of the Employment Department at Barnea, will participate today in the Human Resources Forum Half Year Event and will discuss the issue of protecting employee privacy in the workplace.

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April 6, 2017

Our Firm will lecture at Azrieli College of Engineering Startup Accelerator

Our firm lectured today on employment aspects for startups at the AtoBe – Azrieli College of Engineering Startup Accelerator.

April 4, 2017

Overcoming Common Recruitment Challenges when Entering a New Market

Barnea, together with Nisha Global, will host today a seminar on how to overcome common recruitment challenges when branching out globally to foreign markets. Adv. Marie Tsion, Partner and Head of the Employment Department, will lecture on the legal aspects relating to the activity of a company abroad.

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