Following the Corona crisis and the severe economic crisis affecting many workers in the economy and the self-employed in particular, Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David decided to fire them for the self-employed and ordered the establishment of a special fund to distribute food parcels to the self-employed and families in financial distress.
Through the funds that will be deposited in the fund, the Histadrut will in the near future distribute thousands of food packages to the self-employed, each of which will include products worth NIS 350.
Self-employed people who feel that they are in distress and would like to receive assistance and the food basket can contact the Histadrut's information and service center by phone now - 2383 *. After a process that includes the provision of identifying details and an authorized dealer number, the Histadrut will arrange to send the package to the applicants' home, at no cost to them.
This initiative joins a series of activities promoted by the chairman of the Histadrut in recent months for the self-employed, in which he met with various groups representing the self-employed and even stated that he is working to establish the Histadrut Ha'atzmaim to unite and work under the Histadrut for the advancement of their interests and well-being. In talks with the Ministry of Finance, Bar-David demanded that a safety net be anchored for the self-employed during a war or epidemic up to a maximum of NIS 10,500 a month, similar to the amounts that employees can receive from the National Insurance Institute.
Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David said: "The Histadrut has always acted and will continue to act out of solidarity, out of a place that connects and not out of a place that splits. Therefore, I see a moral and civic duty to assist the self-employed population that has been fatally affected in recent months by the eruption of the corona. The Histadrut is the home of all workers in Israel, and it is our duty to act in every way we can for the benefit of every worker in the economy. We will continue to stand by the workers - employees and the self-employed - and we will invest a lot of effort to promote solutions that may alleviate the situation, until we succeed together. "
National Insurance data show that 202,000 new unemployed people up to the age of 27 were entitled to unemployment benefits in May - about one-fifth of all new unemployment benefit recipients in the first three months of the crisis (compared with about 18% in OECD countries). About a quarter of the young eligible (49,000) come from the Central District.
The study shows that in the sales and hospitality and food services industries, the number of young unemployed is the highest. These industries are characterized by the employment of unskilled young people employed at low wages, and in any case their vulnerability as a result of the economic crisis is higher. As part of the government assistance program, the conditions for eligibility for unemployment benefits were eased, and so were those who were fired or expelled from the unemployment benefit even if they had accumulated six months of work in the past year and a half and not 12. As a result of the change, 32.2 thousand more unemployed young people received unemployment benefits.
Only 20% of those enrolled in the employment service up to the age of 24 have returned to work so far, compared with 22% -24% among the other age groups. The relatively low return rate can be linked to the industries in which young people are employed - especially in the restaurant sector, which is greatly affected by the pace of liberalization imposed on it.
MK Idan Roll, who commissioned the study, said yesterday in response to the data, that “the labor market is in trouble, but the young people in trouble are several times bigger. "We risk creating a lost generation, a generation that will have to stop its professional training track at universities and colleges, whose career track has been damaged and that if we do not help it, it could pay for it all its life."
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