The Knesset Finance Committee approved the outline of the encouragement of employment

The Knesset Finance Committee approved Tuesday, after heated discussions for five days, and despite widespread criticism, the outline of the encouragement of employment adopted by Finance Minister Israel Katz and states that employers who issued workers to the state at the expense of the state will receive a NIS 7,500 grant Four beats if they return the employee as of early June, and workers returned from May 19 will earn their employer a NIS 3,500 grant (also four beats).
Among the changes that were made to the committee in the end was the decision to allow businesses to choose the grant date for its maximization (for the employee status from June to September, or alternatively to receive the grant for the employee status from July to October). Will be facing June and not May).
Another change is increasing the eligibility of educational and higher education institutions for a grant by increasing the support ceiling from the state that allows for a grant from 25% to 40% of the cycle. The extension of eligibility for the grant also applies to employed family members. The commission also determined that the grant payment be made within 21 days of eligibility.
The Ministry of Finance will allow multiplication of benefits under the National Insurance, starting in March, so that the unemployed person's allowance from a subsistence allowance will not be offset during the period of the Corona crisis, and the double allowances will be refunded. The latter, however, in the Finance Committee believe that the demands of the committee members were hand in hand.
The law also stipulates that the remaining half a billion shekels under the outline (if NIS 5.5 billion was allocated) will be allocated for employers who have not laid off or issued employees to the UAV during the corona period, the outline that will be determined in the treasury will eventually be approved by the finance committee.
Katz's outline is the one that gives the first employee grant and does not examine any business cycle damage, so the big earners will be the big retail chains that have outsourced all of their employees, while businesses that keep their employees in spite of the injury will not receive anything. This problem is not fixed.
Katz refused to state that the grant would only be given above a certain transaction rate, which would have made the grants more effective.
The minimum wage that qualifies for the grant is set at NIS 3,300, despite the commission's demand to lower it. Earlier proposals that talked about adjusting the grant to average wages were rejected by Katz as well.