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With the heating up of the northern sector and the evacuation of the residents from the area, the municipality of Kiryat Shmona took a drastic and unusual step when it issued sweeping restraining orders for its employees, even though there were evacuees in about 200 hotels throughout the country.
The lockdown order required some of the workers to continue to come to the city itself, and others to work as part of the six chameleons that were set up in different hotels, preschool assistants were required to work in ad hoc kindergartens that were set up, and all the workers were required to continue their work in order to receive wages. During the five months that have passed since then, some have had difficulties Of the workers to comply with the order, there were some who did not receive salaries, were put on sick leave and fired.
At the end of five months, the workers refuse the public any more the evil of the decree and go out to fight.
After an unsuccessful attempt to reach an agreement with the director general of the municipality on the issue, the Histadrut intended to take the preliminary step of informational meetings, which were to be held this morning. On Thursday, the municipality applied to the court to issue a restraining order, and the judge sent the parties to reach an agreement by Saturday evening.
Yoram Algarsi , the chairman of the workers' council, confirmed that the parties met at the order of the court for a good meeting in which only some of the disputes were agreed upon.
David Cohen, the secretary of the trade union of the municipal employees in the Histadrut, warns that if the municipality does not come to meet the workers, who are both evicted from their homes and obliged to come to work under an order, they will intensify their actions.
Desolate streets in Kiryat Shmona.
"Six social workers resigned because the husband was in the reserves and they did not consider their situation"/Eli Ashkenazi
The Emergency Labor Service Law allows workplaces recognized by the Ministry of Health to recruit essential workers under a lockout order.
The workplace must inform the employees which of them is included in it and they are obliged to show up at the time and place the employer instructs and to perform any work assigned to them.
Anyone who is absent from work during an emergency is not entitled to a salary and failure to show up is a criminal offense punishable by 3 years in prison.
In addition, the general or regional inspector may, during an emergency, order a police officer to bring him there by force.
"Unfortunately, the eviction from the city was a catastrophe to say the least," Cohen wrote in a letter to the employees.
"The municipality did not have a list of essential workers for an emergency, so it issued a sweeping emergency order for everyone, without taking into account those who could not be at work due to their objective condition. Therefore, a situation arose where workers did not receive wages in the months of October-November, but at the expense of annual leave and thus eliminated their stock of vacation days, which forced some of them to go on sick leave or to resign."
He further claims that the municipality of Kiryat Shmona is the only municipality in Israel that issued such orders without involving the workers, while Sderot, Shlomi and other authorities did not violate the conditions but added benefits in order to reward them. He also listed two cases in which workers were invited to a hearing in Kiryat Shmona, where they had to go physically, and they were not prepared to hold them in a safer place.
"One of the workers was sent to Dimona," Cohen told Walla, "and for a month and a half, until she moved To Eilat, where she was assigned, she did not receive a full salary, even though the law requires it.
Six social workers resigned, because the husband was in the reserves and they could not work beyond one hour in the afternoon, and the municipality did not agree to consider their situation.
Instead of supporting the employees and encouraging them, the CEO of the municipality does the opposite.
"We asked the CEO to meet with us and the answer we got from him was, 'You are not relevant.' and fire them. It's inhumane."
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"We are at war and it is important that each side contributes to the war effort," said the municipality/official website, Kiryat Shmona municipality spokeswoman
On the other hand, officials in the municipality claim that in the beginning most of the workers abandoned the work, leaving a small number of dedicated workers who carried the burden alone, so that there was no choice but to issue restraining orders.
"There should be collegiality among their counterparts who are in Kiryat Shmona every day for five months. It cannot be that one worker will be at sea in Eilat and the other will be in Kiryat Shmona in a shelter. Besides, the state does not give any encouragement to the workers to return to full-time work in evacuated settlements."
The municipality of Kiryat Shmona responded: "We are in talks with the workers' committee and representatives of the Histadrut. We have reached agreements on some of the issues and we will not continue the talks until we find an adequate solution to all the issues that are on the agenda. We are at war and it is important that each side contributes to the war effort and the most important thing for us is to continue giving Best service for residents."
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