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The battle for paid workers in isolation: The business sector has backed out of agreements with the state

Having already formulated an outline that divides the payments between the state and the employers, the business sector demands that the burden be borne solely by the state, while the manufacturers strive to reach agreements with the Treasury quickly.

Also, no solution has yet been found for employees who have run out of sick days

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Dana Yarkatzi

Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 10:45 p.m.

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Representatives of the business sector withdrew from the agreements in the negotiations on the outline of the payment of wages to workers who are in isolation after being exposed to a verified patient.

The focus of controversy in the negotiations taking place between employers, industrialists, the Histadrut and the state, standing refusal by employers to pay employees they ran out of sick days, and demand for the business sector to impose the payment of the state and for a retroactive refund from the state amounts previously paid days of isolation.

So far, employers are Those who paid for the days of isolation. However, the High Court ordered that starting next month, wages for the days of absence of an employee due to isolation will not be paid only to the employer, and that the state will have to find a solution, with agreements with employers, manufacturers and the Histadrut.

The parties must notify the court of the outline they have formulated together by September 30.

According to the Ministry of Finance's proposal, the first two days of isolation will be at the employee's expense, the rest of the days will be divided equally between the state and the employer, with an employee returning from private travel abroad and entering isolation not entitled to payment at all. The parties agreed that the employer would be entitled to employ the employee.

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The currently significant debate between the parties revolves around the question of payment to employees whose sick days end during isolation.

Currently, both the Histadrut and the employers are opposed to paying an employee if he does not have sick days, and the Histadrut opposes the possibility that employees will go into a "minus" on sick days.

However, another obstacle arose in the negotiations: throughout the discussions, business president Dovi Amitai was present at the meetings and agreed to the outline - but following comments he received, he issued a statement stating that he does not agree with the outline, and that he will bear all costs. Employers have a retroactive refund of sums paid by them during the isolation days, in the amount of NIS 3 billion

, but the Manufacturers' Association strives to reach an agreement with the Treasury as soon as possible and summarize the issue of past refunds later, so that the state does not request an extension. The situation is that employers will have to pay for the days of isolation. "Employers have already paid NIS 3.3 billion for the days of isolation while waging a war for survival.

We are working to achieve a fair and responsible outline that will protect employers and employees, "said the president of the employers' and businesses' presidency and the president of the Manufacturers' Association, Ron Tomer.

In a letter sent by Amitai, he accused that the wording of the legislation passed by the Treasury would lead to the collapse of employers.

"Last Thursday, the Ministry of Finance passed a draft of legislation that shows that the state intends to change the law so that employers in the private sector will continue to finance the full days of isolation. This is a burden that employers have borne in the amount of more than three billion shekels. And as the High Court ruled even without a legal source of any kind!

This legislation will lead to the collapse of the employers and the loss of jobs and has no source of normative or economic sense. "True clarifies that does not agree that employers will continue to bear the burden of payment on the day of isolation, and demanded state compensation money paid to date.

In addition, he criticized Manufacturers Association "Unclearly, it seems that an employers' organization, unrelated to the presidency of the business sector, has chosen to act contrary to the economic interests of employers, in a puzzling partnership with the Treasury, which means - continuing to base the costs of solitary confinement on employers, despite the High Court ruling. Determining indemnity mechanisms, applicability and period of indemnity, "he said.

Hagai Edri, deputy director of regulation at the Manufacturers' Association, explained that their goal is to reach agreements for the benefit of employers and workers in the economy and prevent unilateral state legislation that could impose on employers the cost of isolation days. "Our alternative is one of two: Is that employers will continue to pay for the days of isolation, or there will be unilateral state legislation that may oblige employers.

We are working to promote an agreed solution and prevent unilateral steps. "

Histadrut: "The debate is not on our field"

Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David told Walla! NEWS that at the moment the employers who are in disagreement with the state will have to reach a solution. "The debate at the moment is between the employers' organizations and the state, and we are not a party, we are ready with our agreements. This decision.

"At the moment, they have to summarize." He says there is also a formula for a solution for workers who have run out of sick days, according to which 70% to 75% of the amount will be paid for the days of isolation.

"This is not the problem, once there is an argument that is not on my field. "Once the debate is over there will be an agreement that will come to legislation, I have given my side, and they will have to legislate a law. It is impossible for workers to walk around here without a solution, leadership and responsibility need to be revealed as I have discovered."

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