Isolation conflict: The state will reimburse the employer for 75% of the cost - workers one day

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Government Nov 15, 2020

The Labor and Welfare Committee today (Sunday) approved for the second and third reading the outline proposed by the committee's chairman, MK Haim Katz,for the government  to finance most of the isolation days of the workers.
According to the outline, workers will bear the cost of only one day and will be deducted up to four sick days. The state will reimburse the employer for 75% of the cost of isolation for employers up to 20 workers, and 50% of the cost for the rest. The indemnity will be provided through the National Insurance Institute.
The arrangement was approved after agreements were reached with the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, based on the outline proposed by the committee chairman and the outline and the original, which was initiated by MK Keren Barak. According to the approved wording, the current arrangement will be valid until March. Part of the bill, which deals with the way employers report to Social Security, has been split from the bill and will come up for separate discussion later this week.
During the hearing, Chairman Katz removed the possibility for workers who had run out of sick days to convert the isolation days by 70% of the state's wages, after it became clear that the state did not intend to pay for the first isolation day. The first is that it categorically hurts him and this possibility will not exist. "
At the request of the National Insurance Institute, employers' requests for indemnification will be submitted starting in February, in order to allow the institution to prepare for the provision of the service, but eligibility will be retroactive from the date of application of the law.
According to the wording, unlike ordinary illness, for weekends and holidays that are not defined as working days, sick days will not be deducted. In a situation where the employee has run out of quota of sick days, the employee will enter a negative balance at the expense of future sick days. Beneficial arrangements in the public sector will prevail over the wording of the law and in the private market this will be left to the discretion of employers.
The issue of grants for returning to the labor market has not yet come up for discussion, as the proposal for a grant grant for soldiers with families and national service servants who have lost their jobs has not yet been submitted to the committee.
Regarding this, Haim Katz told the representatives of the Ministry of Finance: "I was there and I know your conduct and it is a shame and a disgrace. Everything that concerns you always during the exile. You will work efficiently, you can not bury it." Katz's offer includes a one-time grant for soldiers with families and national service volunteers with a dismissed work permit. According to the proposal, national service volunteers will receive a grant of NIS 5,500. At the same time, a joint committee of the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will discuss a proposal for an order that will give a grant to soldiers.
The Presidents of Employers and Businesses stated: "We welcome the addition of the solution to small employers. However, we demand that the Treasury abide by the signed agreement with employers and the Histadrut as required by the agreement, in writing and wording, and compensate employers for any damage caused by the job".
Yossi Alkobi, president of the Craft and Industry Association, which represents small businesses, said in response to the committee's decision that "the approved isolation days outline is a painful compromise on the backs of small businesses. Unfortunately, the state sold the small business lentil stew today. "There should be a burden on the small employer and it has come a long way. But that is not enough. Leaving 25% at the employer's expense is also a decree that the public cannot comply with."
Alkobi, who is currently in solitary confinement, owns a factory with 14 employees, including himself and his wife. Following exposure to a verified patient, he and his wife and up to eight of his isolation staff entered. 80% of factory work is disabled. Alkobi says that these two weeks will sentence him to a significant drop in output and revenue, and despite this, he will be required to fund the isolation days of his employees. "It is inconceivable that we, the small business owners, both absorb the blow and pay for it. Instead of the state helping us recover, it is giving us another kick on the way down," he said.
Dubi Amitai, chairman of the presidency of the business sector, who strongly opposed the previous outline agreed between the Ministry of Finance and the Histadrut and the manufacturers, said, among other things, that, "Today we made a change. We have repealed the new tax cut on business. We turned every stone to explain to everyone the injustice and detachment proposed in the law memorandum. "
He added that "the Knesset has proven that in cases of initiatives that harm businesses in Israel, it will not serve as a rubber stamp. I call on the government to bring in a state budget as soon as possible with clear goals that will lead to the acceleration and growth of the Israeli economy."
The president of Lahav, Adv. Roi Cohen, said in response to the approved outline: "The independents have become suckers of the State of Israel, repeatedly trampling on our rights. The solution given today by the Labor and Welfare Committee is wrong. It is not enough that a self-employed person who is ill in Corona bears the entire burden, now that he also goes into isolation under the provisions of the state will bear all the burden at his own expense. We are not going to stand aside and let them trample us. The committee's decision constitutes unlawful discrimination between the self-employed and the employees, we will go to the High Court.

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