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CEO of the Employment Service for the Unemployed: Do not wait until June, we will not hesitate to deny unemployment benefits

While many businesses have difficulty recruiting, Rami Graur said only 33 employers have applied for assistance.

In an interview with Walla!

He warned the unemployed that later in the year it would be more difficult to find vacancies, and raised the need to encourage employers.

Graur expressed pessimism about unemployment rate: We will stay with 10%

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Sonia Gorodisky

Tuesday, 09 March 2021, 12:47 Updated: 12:49

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In the video: The Comptroller's report on the treatment of the unemployed and the grants for the self-employed in the Corona crisis (Photo: State Comptroller's Office)

According to data from the Ministry of Finance published last night, the extent of the damage to the Israeli labor market was higher than the European average, due to the prolonged closures and the Nahal policy. This policy led to an absurd situation and perhaps the first of its kind in the world. Many shout that they are unable to recruit workers who prefer to stay in the IDF.

The government is brainstorming how to solve the problem.

Quite a few solutions have been proposed recently, the last of which offers to reward the "veteran unemployed" to return to the employment circle by grants of NIS 1,500 in the first and fourth months.

On the other hand, the employment service offers to reward the employers who return workers.

Rami Graur, CEO of the service, is convinced that the government should announce today the continuation of the safety net after June, which he says should be differential for "specific industries that have difficulty returning" and timed. In a conversation with Walla! He calls on the unemployed not to wait until June. Unemployment benefits will be stopped, because then it will be more difficult to return. In addition, he and calls on employers to report those who refuse to return to work and clarifies: "We will not hesitate to deny unemployment benefits."

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"Calls to the public: Go back to work when there is a job offer."

Graur (Photo: Government Press Office, Shlomi Amsalem)

Graur says that since the announcement of the opening of the economy about four weeks ago, a little less than 160,000 workers have returned to work.

"I estimate that in the last week alone, tens of thousands of people have returned to work. There is cautious optimism about a quick return to work," he says.

However, there are many employers who say they are unable to recruit employees.

"This phenomenon is familiar to us. We hear about certain industries that fail to recruit, especially restaurateurs and where the wage is probably the minimum wage, maybe less than that, where we hear the difficulty."

"I call on job seekers - do not wait until the end of June, return to work when there is a job offer," he emphasizes.

"It is important to get back to work quickly and quickly because in June when there are changes and I estimate there will be changes - there will probably be a different safety net - so there will be a lot of job seekers who will not return to work and there will be many vacancies. And two more weeks. "

You said that some of the restaurants did manage to recruit employees.

On what does it depend?

"It also depends quite a bit on the employers themselves and their persuasion. I also call on employers - help us, contact us and ask for employees - we have to offer you many good employees. We will help you bring employees. In addition, if you have sent employees to the IDF and they refuse to return - Tell us and we will convince these people to come back.

And I have already said: if we do not succeed in convincing them, in cases where there is no justifiable reason not to return to work, we will not hesitate to enforce the law and stop unemployment benefits.

Sharp and smooth. "

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Nearly three weeks ago, the employment service announced that employers could report to him employees who refuse to return to work.

However, Grauer finds that since then, only 33 employers have approached the service for a total of 60 workers who are reportedly unable to return sick. "We are investigating all cases," he says. "A small proportion of workers have no justification for not returning to work. And we take care of them.

If they do not return to work, we will implement what the law gives us, among other things - a stay of unemployment benefits. "

Why have so few employers contacted you so far?

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Employers

may not yet receive all employees, some are still in dialogue with their employees , Some of them are unpleasant and there are also some employers who have told me that they are afraid to quarrel with the employees.

It does not surprise me that they do not apply.

The option to report employees who do not return to work has been with us for many months and we have been debating when to activate it.

Now that the economy has opened, it's time to launch all the existing tools together to bring back the workers from the IDF as quickly as possible.

"The 'optimistic' scenario: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed at the end of 2021"

In the conversation, Grauer is also required by the Treasury's assessment published yesterday, according to which the unemployment rate at the end of the year will be 6.5%.

His assessments are far more pessimistic.

"We are probably left with a considerable amount of unemployment. The estimate of the employment service in the optimistic situation remains with about 350,000 job seekers at the end of the year - some will not be able to return to work because businesses will be closed and some will be fired - and 450,000 in the pessimistic forecast. Unemployment of 10%, "he says.

The Ministry of Finance and the National Insurance Institute have formulated an agreement that has not yet been approved, according to which the veteran unemployed will receive a grant of NIS 1,500 in the first month of their return to work and on Wednesday.

As someone who knows the area, will this policy encourage the unemployed to return?

"There are programs in the air. There is talk of various grants for the unemployed to encourage them to return to work, I do not know them all. I but I would be very happy if these grants were given to employers and encouraged to return jobseekers to work. Last summer we transferred NIS 1.6 billion. The Treasury's plan to encourage employers to return workers. We think the plan was good, it contributed to the return of about 430,000 workers. Some would say that employers return the workers anyway and there is no need to reward them for it. Maybe, but there is no doubt that the plan worked. I I strongly believe in the need to encourage employers to return workers and create jobs. "

"It is optimistic that we will be able to connect as much as possible between job seekers and employers."

Employment Service Offices in Jerusalem (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

"Regarding the application policy - from the beginning we said it was the right decision.

It was an accessible and quick solution, a off-the-shelf solution, to give social security to citizens who find themselves one bright day out of work, Passover eve, epidemic and great anxiety.

That was true then.

Over time had to change.

Have not changed it, and still not too late.

When the deadline for unemployment benefits ends at the end of June, that needs to change.

One needs to identify the specific industries that are having difficulty returning and there give a timely and differential unemployment benefit extension.

Already today we need to declare that we are embarking on a new unemployment benefit plan that gives a timely and differential safety net. "

What is the employment service doing these days to lower the unemployment rate in the economy?

" First of all, during the day we will contact all employers and offer them our service. Free, we want to help them.

We have opened all the employment bureaus in accordance with the purple mark, and we are back to conducting the employment test, and starting to set dates for stabilization as it was before the Corona.

In addition, we operate the training system: we have issued a call together with the Manufacturers 'Association, with the construction industry, to recruit workers and perform training while working or frontal training according to the employers' requirements.

For this purpose, we received an initial budget of NIS 16 million.

As employers' demand grows, so will budgets.

"" Beyond that, we continue the day-to-day operations of workshops and names.

In the corona year, with all the closures, we were able to connect 52,000 job seekers and employers.

"This is an unusual amount in light of the fact that the economy is not operating, it was a great success in my eyes," he adds.

We have also recently started conducting training for pharmacists.

I am definitely optimistic that we will be able to connect as much as possible between job seekers and employers and reduce the unemployment rate. "

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