CEO of Employment Service: "Time to Complete the Current Application Model" | Israel today

Rami Graur said at the 17th Jerusalem Conference of the Media Group in Sheva: "We are fighting the phenomenon of sickness and understand its severity" • Emphasized: "New jobs must be created for job seekers who are left without an employer"

• Panel at seven.

  "The longer the application period lengthens, the harder it is to return to work."

The director of the employment service, Rami Graur, calls for an end to the unpaid vacation model (KHALT) in its current format: Of the media group at seven. 

According to Grauer, "Towards July, the next government must adopt a differential Knesset model that will allow, on the one hand, support for those who find it difficult to return to work, and on the other hand will not be a barrier to returning to work."

Eran Bar-Tal, the economic editor of "Israel Today" who chaired the panel, added that the shortage of workers despite the unemployment has become difficult.

In response, the director general of the employment service said: "We know about the existence of the phenomenon, we fight it with a variety of tools and we do not blind our eyes to its severity." However, Grauer stressed, "The phenomenon is not like a shout.

"What should bother us more is the gap between the number of job seekers and the number of jobs offered in the economy. We must take care not only of returning Khalat workers to work, but also, and perhaps most importantly, of creating new jobs for job seekers who are left without an employer."

Asked about the application model, Grauer replied that "exactly one year ago, more than 200,000 jobseekers were registered in one day, these are inconceivable numbers that obliged the government to provide as wide, comprehensive and accessible a safety net as possible." 

At the same time, Grauer clarified that "now, with the success of the vaccination campaign and the accelerated return of the economy to activity, the next government must adopt a differential KHL model, one that provides a safety net for all who will need it in July 2021, and encourages increasing work. .

A safety net should provide support, but it must not become a barrier to returning to the work circle. " 

"Disaster for young couples"

Graur calls on employers to use the employment service, both to return workers who have left for the IDF and refuse to return to work, and no less so in recruiting new workers to fill the jobs. 

In addition, Grauer called on job seekers to make every effort to return to the labor force and said, "Do not wait until June, make every effort to return to the labor force as soon as possible. Studies show, and with them the employment data we have collected over the past year. for work".

Yehuda Ketab, vice president of the Builders' Association of Contractors, also spoke at the conference, referring to the local real estate market. "Construction starts will not be as they once were, there are no building permits, there are problems with foreign workers and therefore prices are rising," Being here is a disaster for young couples. "Panel at seven.