Victory for the opposition: the proposal to raise the minimum wage was approved in advance;

RAAM supported, Meretz and Labor were absent

Knesset members in the coalition factions sought to allow freedom of vote on the bill and said that if their demand was not met they would support the opposition proposal, contrary to coalition discipline.

MK Lazimi: "It hurts me to vote against the law, but I am doing the right thing." Bennett and Saar were furious

Yaki Adamkar

08/06/2022

Wednesday, 08 June 2022, 16:37 Updated: 17:21

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In the video: Lieberman cynically refers to demands to raise the minimum wage (Photo: Knesset Channel)

The bill to raise the minimum wage was approved today (Wednesday) in a preliminary reading.

Earlier, the RAAM

party announced that it would support the bill to raise the minimum wage, which would be put to a vote in a preliminary reading in the plenum, contrary to coalition discipline. Meretz and Labor were absent from the vote.

From the plenum for it to pass.

"I have a great pain that I do not vote for, but I am doing the right thing for the public in Israel who live in poverty."

Knesset members in the coalition factions wanted to allow freedom of vote on the bill to raise the minimum wage to NIS 40 and said that if their demand was not met, they would support the opposition proposal, contrary to coalition discipline.

Three similar bills to raise the minimum wage were put on the agenda of the Knesset plenum, by MKs Ahmad Tibi and Osama Saadi, by MK Orly Levy Abkasis and MK Naimi Lazimi from the Labor Party.

The opposition announced that they would support the bills, and some factions in the coalition sought to allow freedom of vote so that they could support them.

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Chairman of the Prime Minister, Mansour Abbas (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Gideon Saar were furious that Labor and Meretz had decided not to attend the plenum and that the Prime Minister had announced that she would support, contrary to coalition discipline. Shortly before the vote, the coalition tried to reach a compromise between all the faction leaders in which all Knesset members would leave the

plenum

and not participate in the vote on the minimum wage law. Announced that he opposed it.

Earlier today, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and chairwoman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan, agreed on the formulation of an improved outline for the package deal and how to increase the minimum wage.

The background to this is the changes that the economy has experienced in recent months, after the signing of the agreement and the date intended for its implementation.

The statement said that "all parties involved are currently holding a joint dialogue in order to upgrade the outline responsibly while looking at reducing gaps in Israeli society and economic growth."

As mentioned, this is an update of the package deal that was published at the end of last year, in which the minimum wage will increase gradually so that it will be NIS 7,280 per month and NIS 40 per hour.

In addition it will be updated every year on April 1 in accordance with the increase in labor productivity.

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