In accordance with the strict guidelines for dealing with the Corona, more and more citizens are required not to come to work • Parents? Self-employed or salaried? • The answers to the burning questions

• Azrieli Mall is empty // Photo: Joshua Yosef

The additional restrictions imposed yesterday also raise questions among traders and employers. We have created a short guide to the questions many of the employees and self-employed people are asking themselves today.

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If an employer wants to take out paid employees to the USSR (leave without pay), can they refuse?

Yes.

What are the rights of employees who refuse to leave the US, and the employer nevertheless states that they will not work?

Employees may claim that it is a palpable condition and legally resign, meaning that they will be entitled to full severance pay (insofar as the resignation is in accordance with the law - sending an alert before resigning). There may be situations in which employees will be entitled to wages for their compulsory removal to the PA.

Suppose a situation where there are salaried employees, full-time workers for many years in the same workplace. A plant manager informs them that due to a decrease in orders, they will be forced to move part-time until the end of the Corona crisis. Will they be able to refuse?

Yes, employees may refuse tangible deterioration in their employment conditions.

Who can receive compensation for the injury?

To the extent that the workers did not agree to the tangible deterioration, and continued to work 'under protest', they would be able to make a claim in the future for the damage to their wages.

As for situations where parents of children under 16, who are in solitary confinement, are also forced to stay home and work away, as far as their job allows. Are they entitled to full pay?

As much as the employer allowed his employees to work from home, working from home earned wages.

What happens to the wages of employees who are committed to isolation but do not have the balance of sick leave or leave?

As long as employees do not have the balance of days off, and do not have sick days, they will not receive wages.

What rights do small business owners have that can't work?

Small, medium or large business owners, including freelancers, are not eligible for sick leave, and the automated sickness certificate issued by order does not apply to them. Any damage to the volume of their income will not receive any compensation unless the government decides on a compensation scheme for the self-employed. Anyone who has a loss of work policy and, in accordance with its terms, can apply for insurance coverage from the insurance company. In addition, the financially damaged business owners can apply for a State guarantee loan in accordance with the stipulated conditions.

What about the foreign workers?

Attorney Gross explains that due to the exceptional situation, farmers who employ foreign workers whose period of residence in Israel is over or about to end - will be dated temporarily: "The Minister has exercised his authority in the Entry into Israel Law and will temporarily extend for workers who have reached 63 months. That's about 600 employees. "

There are nursing citizens whose foreign caregivers have traveled for a maternity leave. Will they be able to enter the country at the end of their vacation?

Foreign caregivers will be subject to the Ministry of Health and Population Authority directives, so they will be required to be home-insulated unless procedures are strictly enforced and strictly prohibited. Staying with the older civilians could put them at risk of contracting the disease. In such a situation it is advisable to talk to the personnel company from which the employees came, to find alternative solutions.

Answers courtesy of Attorney Amit Gross, founding partner of the law firm Doron, Tikotsky, Amit Gross & Co., Labor Law, Immigration and Mobility Specialist