Tens of thousands of nursing citizens, most of them elderly, are unaware that the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee may soon disrupt their daily routine and affect the future of their care.
The Minister of the Interior, Ayelet Shaked, wants to change the model of home care for those nursing citizens, so that instead of the patient or his family being the employers of the foreign workers, these will be staffing companies.
The Minister of the Interior believes that such an engagement would constitute a seemingly significant relief in dealing with the intricacies of bureaucracy associated with the employment of a foreign caregiver.
However, the provisions of the law, which the committee is supposed to promote, stipulate that despite the change in the employment model, the nursing patients will continue to bear legal responsibility towards their employees, since they are the ones who actually employ them. And if that is not enough, then the employment of foreign workers in this model is likely to cost patients much more money.
The private bureaus are currently responsible for placing foreign workers in the public of nursing patients. They are the ones who optimally manage the relationship between the therapist and the patient through a broad and supervised professional team, in difficult market conditions dictated by government policy. The bureaus have the small advantage over the nursing companies: they have the ability to know each caregiver and each patient, and to make a quality adjustment between them in terms of language, culture, availability, gender and more. As those who have been in the field for over twenty years, they have found solutions for both nursing citizens of different ages and for those who do not receive a nursing benefit from the Social Security, including the disabled, children with special needs or high-income patients who are not eligible for nursing benefit.
The private bureaus are working day and night to find caregivers for thousands of nursing patients in a shortage of 15,000 foreign caregivers in the nursing industry, which has created a crazy increase in workers' wage demands and working conditions.
Despite this, they manage to make a match between therapist and patient in all medical, emotional, and verbal aspects.
They are also the ones who deal with crisis management between the parties and bring about their solution.
The employment of foreign caregivers in the nursing industry by the nursing companies may create a powerful and wealthy cartel on the backs of the elderly, while deepening the State of Israel's dependence on the nursing industry and further severe economic harm to the elderly.
The team set up by the Minister was presented with a proposal for a comprehensive reform of the industry that would address the many difficulties that nursing patients face today.
The same reform guarantees the elderly a significant financial increase, when the financing will be made from the budget of the National Insurance Nursing Benefit by setting up a dedicated service unit for the elderly who employ a foreign caregiver, and thus the elderly will receive a free full professional envelope.
What will the Labor and Welfare Committee and the Minister choose?
Hopefully for the benefit of the nursing citizen.
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