The proportion of teachers among the employed and the proportion of high-tech workers in Israel place it above the average of the OECD countries.
Report: Israel is one of the leaders in working from home
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47% of workers in Israel are employed in a profession that allows work from home - higher than all OECD countries except Luxembourg and significantly higher than the OECD average of 38%.
This emerges from the Labor Market Report published by the Labor Arm, at the Ministry of Labor and Welfare.
However, the actual rate of domestic workers in the months of the second closure was lower than the potential.
Examining the ability to work from home according to home infrastructure shows that while non-Haredi Jews live in relatively spacious homes with computers and the Internet, the ultra-Orthodox and Arab populations live in crowded homes without a computer, making it difficult for them to work from home.
Thus, 91% of the non-Haredi Jewish population have access to the Internet, compared with 76% of Arabs and only 37% of Haredim.
In the last September-October months, 27% of workers reported that they actually worked from home, despite the gaps in infrastructure.
The authors of the report state that the lack of compliance in the legislation with the dramatic changes that have taken place in the labor market since the relevant laws were enacted, may harm the entire economy, workers and employers alike.
An example of this can be found in legislation related to working hours: Working hours in Israel are higher than the OECD average.
In Israel, an employee can be employed for up to 12 hours a day, including overtime, and no more than 58 hours per week, ie 42 regular hours and an additional 16 hours.
In contrast, in many countries around the world, the overtime quota is set on a periodic average basis, or a periodic quota, which allows flexibility according to requirements and demand.
Work more than allowed
A survey initiated by the labor arm on labor norms illustrates the gaps between the law, labor norms in Israel and the needs of workers.
About a quarter of respondents indicated that they often work more than allowed by law, and 38% testified that they need more flexibility in working hours.
The corona crisis reinforced the need to adjust labor legislation: employers had to change working hours to accommodate changing constraints and demands, and workers had to deal with the need to change working hours due to the lack of education frameworks.
The survey shows that the higher the wage, the greater the tendency to work beyond the working hours stipulated by law.
Thus, 43% of those earning more than NIS 18,000 worked more than the working hours stipulated by law, compared with only 11% at the lowest wage levels.
Hospitality workers
The report shows that there is a link between the level of employment injury and the level of education: the unemployment rate was lower among educated workers. Was among those whose last institution of study was yeshiva or high school, and stood at 19% in the second closure.Workers with higher formal education were defined at higher rates as "essential."
According to Mordechai Elisha, the head of the labor arm: "The damage from Israel" starring from the end "in the level of digital skills is especially noticeable at this time when the economy is required to move to work remotely if possible."
Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced yesterday that in January there were about 60,500 job vacancies, similar to last December.
A survey of the number of job vacancies for the months November-January shows that the vacancy rate for January was 2.57%, compared with 2.55% in December, according to the seasonally adjusted data.
This is a lower figure than the multi-year average.
It also turns out that there has been an increase in demand for workers in the hospitality and food and beverage services industries, in parallel with a decline in demand for workers in the trade industries.
Developers and programmers
Multi-year estimates of occupations for the years 2020-2014 indicate that there is an increase in the demand for occupations in the information technology industries, which includes software developers and programmers.
In 2020, there was a decrease in demand for this occupation, but a study of these estimates by quarters shows that this decrease is mainly due to the second quarter, in which the first closure occurred.
The vacancies in this profession returned to their level in the last quarter of the year.
The demand for employees in the field of personal services, which includes tour guides and waiters, increased significantly in the years 2018-2014.
In 2019, a moderate decline in demand for this occupation was observed, similar to the total demand in the economy this year.
As expected, by 2020 the demand for this occupation has fallen sharply as a result of the crisis.
The proportion of teachers among the employed and the proportion of high-tech workers in Israel place it above the average of the OECD countries √ Data from the Ministry of Labor also show that educated workers suffered less from unemployment
47% of workers in the country can work from home
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