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The Minister of Economy is once again examining the economics of the platforms, despite the existence of an up-to-date report proposing to adopt the method. The re-examination is following public pressure and a discussion in the Labor and Welfare Committee


Minister of Economy, Decide: Work From Home - Opportunity or Exploitation?

The zigzag of the Ministry of Economy: The Minister of Economy is re-examining the economy of the platforms, despite the existence of a report from 2020 that proposed adopting the method.

Between Ashkenazi

24/01/2022

Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:05 Updated: 11:23

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The Ministry of Economy last week issued a press release stating that the Minister of Economy and Industry, Arona Barbibai, has set up a professional team to examine the "platform economy" - that is, an examination of unique forms of employment created in the economy.



"The decision to set up the team comes in the face of global changes in the labor market in Israel and around the world, especially in light of the accelerating processes and their intensification with the Corona crisis, which brought with it a change in working dynamics and created different forms of employment."



According to the announcement, the team will be led by Adv. Rivka Werbner

, the Chief Labor Relations Officer, who will be joined by representatives from the National Insurance Institute, the Tax Authority, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice.

Following lawsuits filed in the labor courts on this issue, some even called this method of employment a "gig economy" with the intention of emphasizing that it is difficult to make a living in this way.

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Work from home: on the one hand allows residents from the periphery to make a living as if they lived in the center.

On the other hand, an opening is opened for exploitation by employers (Photo: ShutterStock)

Encourages livelihoods or allows harm to employees?



So far, everything is good and beautiful, but only a year and a half ago, in August 2020, the then Minister of Labor and Welfare, Itzik Shmuli, submitted a concluding report

written for three years and dealt, among other things, with the platform economy.

Beautiful the "platform economy" and even proposed to flex and change labor laws because these are not "aligned with the reality of the global labor market which was largely determined before the changes in the labor market took place".



The report further states: "There is a tension between the state's desire to protect workers, which is currently reflected in most countries in the supervision of employment structure and working hours and sometimes even restrictions on them, and between employers 'need and sometimes workers' desire for more flexible work."



The authors of the report include Shaul Meridor, then chief budget officer at the Ministry of Finance, and Shira Greenberg, chief economist, and Moti Elisha, who recently completed his job, praised the platform economy: In order to participate in the labor market, new ways of earning a living, such as a cooperative economy or working as freelancers, are developing.



" In the Labor and Welfare Committee:



"The report refers to forms of employment such as digital platforms and freelancers as 'new ways of earning a living', which should be encouraged, but it ignores the harm that these alternative forms of employment cause to employees.



The disregard is particularly severe in light of its widespread reference to this issue in the policy discourse around the world, and especially in a number of in-depth works from the recent period published by the OECD. In particular, a chapter devoted to regulation of the changing labor market in the 2019 Employment Report which dealt with the way in which unjustified classification (Misclassification) of workers as self-employed produces artificial circumvention of labor laws, excludes workers from social security mechanisms such as unemployment insurance and impairs their ability to act collectively. Their work and may in the long run harm the quality of jobs and distort the set of incentives for employers. "



Biran added:" Offensive.



"This is a problematic concept, which contradicts other parts of the report, in which the importance of improving the quality of jobs was emphasized. .



Biran's remarks raise the question of why the Ministry of Economy ignored the obvious and why a new team is needed, while the report is right on the minister's desk?

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