Following consultations held by the Minister of Labor, Yariv Levin, and the Director-General of the Ministry, Robi Shemesh, with professional officials, here are the proposals for protecting workers in the economy during an emergency:
- Emergency Employee Protection Law – Due to the state of emergency, the Ministry of Labor is advancing an amendment to the Emergency Employee Protection Law and proposes to protect against dismissals also in cases where an employee is absent from work and/or cannot perform it due to the fact that they were evacuated from their home due to damage caused to their home during the campaign against Iran.
In accordance with the proposal, the Ministry proposes to grant protection for a period of three months from the date of evacuation, subject to approval from the local authority that will be provided to the employer by the employee. - The Ministry of Labor is advancing a draft law that will allow for shortening deadlines and will allow the Minister of Labor to expand general collective agreements dealing with emergencies, within a period of seven days, instead of one month. This involves expanding orders signed by the Minister of Labor between employer organizations and the representative workers’ organization dealing with issues such as: salary, rights of reservists and their spouses. The purpose of the draft law is to allow employees to receive their rights in a shorter period of time.
Both amendments have been uploaded to the government legislation website and the public is invited to comment on them until Saturday night (3.7.26)