tory for the self-employed: social benefits that employees receive such as unemployment benefits will be given

History for the self-employed. On Wednesday afternoon, the Knesset plenum approved in a preliminary reading the Knesset Member Idit Silman's Deposits and Social Rights for the Self-Employed, to which similar proposals by Knesset members Miki Zohar and the Barak Foundation were attached. 41 Knesset members supported the proposal in front of one opponent and it will be forwarded together with the attached proposals to the Labor and Welfare Committee for its preparation for first reading as early as next week.
The plan is expected to be postponed to the next state budget in a year due to a lack of budget for its implementation already in the upcoming state budget. The law compares the tax laws and social rights and social protections of self-employed workers to those of employees. This includes proposing to allow a self-employed worker to receive maternity benefits, compensation for reserve service and unemployment insurance and to deposit social deposits such as pensions, severance pay and benefits as well as withdraw them on the same terms as an employee.
The explanation reads: "In Israel there are over 600,000 small or independent businesses. Although they are exposed to many risks, according to Israeli law, they are not entitled to social benefits that employees receive, such as unemployment benefits, sickness benefits, maternity benefits, adequate reimbursement for reserve service. And the like.
"This bill is intended to eliminate the gap between the social rights of self-employed workers and employees, recognizing the importance of self-employed workers in the labor sector. It is proposed to bring about a reform that will significantly affect various areas of social conditions and tax law. .
MK Silman: "We are bringing together here for the first time a line that has not been like it. I'm proud to have fought for it because it's a really worthy goal. Now the program is moving from an idea in the social protest to the official policy of the State of Israel. "
MKs in the opposition accused the coalition of stealing the law. MK Yaakov Margi: "This is a welcome bill, but it is not possible that the Knesset's bylaws become a recommendation. Why did you pass a similar opposition bill a month ago? This house. "
The only MK who opposed the law was Margie, former chairman of the Knesset's Economics Committee, in protest of the opposition's theft of laws by the coalition on the issue of the self-employed, after the coalition voted last month against the law initiated by the opposition on the same issue.
Deputy Minister Avir Kara asked to comment: "There is a big difference between the proposals made here last time and these proposals. The difference is in the choice, we want to allow the self-employed who want it to issue a coupon and not forcibly. It is a holiday for the self-employed."
The outline of the safety net for the self-employed, initiated by the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Avir Kara, is based on a plan led in 2015 by the Chamber of Tax Advisers. The outline offers a unique model of voluntary choice for the self-employed between routes that will compare their conditions to the conditions of the employees and will also deploy a safety net for them in case of need such as illness or business closure. An independent track as an employee will allow each self-employed person to issue a pay slip for themselves and thus equalize the social conditions of the employees and the self-employed, and allow them to deposit social deposits - such as unemployment benefits in a voluntary track if they wish.
In the self-employed safety net route, a reduced amount will be set aside for the National Insurance, and one percent will go to the self-employed pension and savings fund, and in various cases such as moving house, illness, vacation, unemployment, etc., the business owner can withdraw from the fund he saved. Money that does not last will accrue to the pension.
Deputy Minister Avir Kara: "My main election guarantee was a safety net for the self-employed. The bill would allow the self-employed to operate with greater security, without being enslaved to Social Security mechanisms, alongside free choice of business owner and entrepreneur between two tracks. "The Corona crisis has ensured that it will take place and now we are approaching another step on the way to implementing a plan that will resolve the issue forever."
According to the deputy minister, "Over the years, countless laws and proposals have been submitted for a safety net for the self-employed. Most of them were not good and the rest failed to be promoted in the various governments.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: "As someone who came from the business sector, I understand how important it is to enable the self-employed, the entrepreneurs, to take risks, to produce and grow. During the long and difficult corona closures I met many self-employed people who were injured and did not have a basic safety net that would allow them to sleep peacefully at night and return to a path of growth at the end of the crisis. I promised the knight when he joined us, the right-wing team - that we would pass tremendous reforms to make it easier for the self-employed and to deploy a safety net for them. We passed the reforms in the Arrangements Law and the state budget and we passed the safety net today in the first reading. "I thank the Deputy Minister in the Office of Prime Minister Avir Kara and the Minister of Finance for the important work that will allow many business owners to sleep at night with a little less worries."