The top Yedioth Ahronoth is changing its face: as revealed in Vala! Branch - Shai Magal will be appointed CEO of the ynet website. Magal will replace the current CEO Barak Kalmanovich who will leave the group after 22 years of activity, including about 17 from the group's website.
Magal, who serves as CEO of the AllJobs website, previously served as Deputy CEO of Ynet and later as Vice CEO of Vala! and as Deputy CEO of the Ko Menha Group.
Meanwhile, this week it was published in Vala! Barangay that four years after he returned to his position, the group's CEO Zion Peretz asked to end his position - this is what senior officials in the newspaper claim. According to the executives, Peretz will leave in the coming months. Peretz returned to the position of CEO of the group about four years ago after he resigned in favor of a position Deputy CEO of Network 13 Avi Ben Tal. Peretz himself did not respond to Walla's inquiry.
Peretz is considered one of the most powerful people in the Yedioth Ahronoth group and his departure, if it happens, will happen against the background of the biggest wave of cuts in the newspaper's history.
In the meantime, as mentioned, the crisis continues in the latest news. Last week the Labor Court established a framework for the continuation of negotiations between the management and the employees on the consolidation of the systems and its consequences. Among other things, the parties agreed to return to the negotiating table for a number of meetings for a period of about a month and a half, until the end of May. The management, for its part, pledged that during this period, the management would not take unilateral measures, including downsizing.
The decision of the High Court came following a petition by the journalists' organization Yedioth Group Journalist Committee in Tel Aviv in order to instruct the management of the group to apply the collective agreements and the conditions contained therein to the employees of the group's ynet site and to conduct negotiations with the employee representatives regarding the terms of employment of employees before taking unilateral steps in the system.
The negotiations with the management of the Yediot Ahronoth Group reached an impasse three weeks ago, when the management rejected the committee's minimum demands for working conditions and the remaining employees in the unified system. Committee officials then told Walla! Branch that: "If the management starts unilaterally firing the employees - A complete shutdown of the newspaper is also on the agenda."
As you may recall, on July 23 Yediot management announced that it intends to make structural changes and merge the Ynet news system with the news system of Yediot Ahronoth, something that affects hundreds of employees from both systems.
At the beginning, Yediot management presented The latest plan to lay off 67 employees, but the number referred only to the consolidation of the systems and not to other divisions in the group such as radio ynet which was closed and the magazine "Menta" - which recently said goodbye to 11 employees. In addition to them, as of now, 20 employees have voluntarily resigned from the group, 9 have been fired, 6 have gone sick On November 3, they resigned.