The number of first-time employees has decreased by 50% in the last decade • The company currently employs 1,567 family members - about 14% of the workforce • Company factors: "There is a strict policy in employing relatives"
IEC employees. Exceptions Committee for Relatives
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Family, but less: The rate of employment of first-degree relatives in the electricity company has been cut by more than 50% in the last decade - according to data obtained by Israel Today.
According to the data, the number of first-degree employees (spouses, siblings, parents and children) currently amounts to 1,567 people, which constitutes about 14% of the IEC's workforce. This is a steep decline compared to 2008, when the proportion of employees who are relatives was close to 30%. In the last two years, 1,053 employees who have a close relationship with other employees have retired.
The data also show that since 2015, 31 new employees have been recruited who are close to other employees, while in the first three months of the year (January to March) the figure was 0. The total number of relatives employed by the Electric Company, including cousins, is about 2,200. Which constitute about one-fifth of the company's total employees. Since 2015, there have been 88 people - including those with first relatives. For comparison, in the years 2012-2008, the Electric Company absorbed 186 new employees and relatives.
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The IEC expresses satisfaction with the data, which reflects a reversal of a trend in relation to past data and the company's image, which was known in the culture of employing relatives. According to company sources, it implements a "strict policy" in everything related to the employment of relatives, including close management of the company's human resources division and monitoring and control by the human resources committee of the company's board of directors. Each case is submitted individually for approval by the Exceptions Committee of the Company's CEO and for approval by the Board of Directors.
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In places where relatives of the company were employed, structural separation is carried out so that there are no situations of subordination between family members - including routing employees to remote places.
Meanwhile, in the first half of the year, 96.5% of the applications for connecting new solar facilities to the electricity grid were approved, with a capacity of approximately 76% of all applications. These are 4,312 facilities - a record number of approvals since the beginning of the renewable energy revolution in Israel in 2015, based on the Paris Climate Conference.
The electricity company said: "The company is directing the development of the grid to areas where there is still no optimal solution for putting energy into the grid, so that in the coming years, additional private producers throughout the country will be able to join the electricity generation system in Israel."