In ten percent of the budgeted and supported entities, wage irregularities were allegedly discovered.
This is according to a report published today (Monday) by the Commissioner for Wages and Employment Agreements in the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan. High and deferred wage supplement payments.
The savings resulting from the agreement are estimated at NIS 620 million, the cumulative amount from 2020 and for the coming years.
As far as outside teachers in public colleges are concerned, the Enforcement Unit has led a move to address exceptions regarding the pay and employment conditions of outside teachers in nine public colleges.
The total savings (including actuarial savings) are estimated at NIS 160 million.
In Magen David Adom, a collective hearing letter was created regarding alleged wage irregularities in the salaries of the organization's employees.
At the end of the negotiations to settle all issues, including the alleged wage anomalies, the parties reached agreements and a comprehensive historical collective agreement was signed regulating all working conditions and wages of MDA workers. The total annual savings as a result of wage intervention There have been cumulative savings of about NIS 18 million among school principals in the "Oz LaTmura" reform and principals in education departments.
Ministry of Finance, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
At the same time, the report presents the activities of the Wage Investigation Unit, in which 166 investigation files were opened in all public bodies since its inception, with almost all indictments ending in conviction (56 out of 57). The president of Shenkar College was convicted, for example, of plea bargaining with the approval of exceptions in the salaries of five department heads in the total amount of about a quarter of a million shekels. She was convicted of giving herself salary benefits in the amount of NIS 69,816 as advances, which were not approved by the authorized persons and were not deducted from her salary. The public.
Wage deviations have been on a declining trend since the unit began operating.
In the last decade, the percentage of alleged step-bodies has fallen by about 5%.
As a result of the enforcement unit's activity in the years 2017-2020, more than NIS 82 million was returned to entities.
The total cumulative savings estimate since the establishment of the unit amounts to over NIS 8.6 billion.
The Enforcement Unit and the Wage Investigation Unit operate within the Wage and Employment Agreements Division of the Ministry of Finance.
The purposes of the units are to locate and eliminate wage irregularities, to reimburse illegally paid monies and to bring the payment approvals of the wage irregularities into disciplinary proceedings.
The activity of the units contributes to the preservation of the public coffers, leads to significant savings in public funds and enables the government and public bodies to allocate these funds for the benefit of the public.
The enforcement unit has a "real-time enforcement" system that helps the unit's economists detect wage irregularities shortly after they are paid, which uses analytical tools, locates and marks the centers where there are many wage irregularities or in which payments are unusually high.
Wage Supervisor Kobi Bar-Natan: "In the past year, the enforcement unit has dealt with a variety of areas, including regulating wage irregularities in government companies, regulating the employment conditions of academic staff members, and dealing with wage irregularities in several local authorities. All this has saved hundreds of millions of shekels. "Especially at a time when the economy is facing the challenges of the corona, it must be ensured that public funds are paid according to law, in an informed manner and without abuse.
