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Working hours on Israel’s Memorial Day & Independence Day

Moshe

Memorial Day of Israel’s Fallen soldiers is Monday April 15th, 2013

According to the fallen soldiers law (1963), any employee who is one of the following:
*  parent
*  grandparent
*  spouse
* child
* sibling

of a fallen soldier, is eligible to be absent from work on this day without liability of deduction from pay.

 

Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut)

Israel’s 65 birthday is Tuesday April 16th, 2013

According to the Independence Day law (1959), This is a paid national holiday. This applies to all employers in Israel.

The day prior to Independence Day (Memorial Day or Erev Yom Ha’atzmaut) is a shortened work day, by law.
Employees who work an 8 hour workday, need work only 7 hours.
Employees who work a 9 hour workday, need work only 8 hours.
Places of employment that have a collective or personal agreement, or custom which is more favorable to the employee than the law, these would take precedence.
There is no deduction for missing hours for this day.

To be paid for Independence Day, you need to have at least 3 month’s tenure with your employer and you need to work the day before and the day after Independence day.

Employers that are not included in the list of places that need to operate on a holiday which is published by the Prime Minister’s Office are not allowed to force their employees to work on Independence Day as publicized by the Israeli Labor Court.

Employees who work for an employer who is included in the list, are entitled to 200% for all hours worked from 24:00 (midnight) on Memorial Day until 24:00 on Independence Day.
Payment for Independence Day needs to be itemized separately on the payslip.

 

 

Holiday payment directives

Moshe

 

Holiday Payment Directives

 Submitted by Moshe on Wed, 07/04/2010 – 14:17

Holidays are explicitly defined:
2 days Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, 2 days Sukkot, 2 days Pesach, Shavuot and Yom Ha’atzmaut.

Monthly employees are entitled to payment for the Holidays that occur during the month for which payroll is paid, since their base pay is monthly based (set). Such employees receive their regular pay and are not entitled to additional pay for the Holidays.

Employees who receive a daily rate (or hourly rate or contractual employees) are entitled to payment for Holidays, provided that they worked at least 3 months at the place of employment and that they were not absent from work the day before and the day following the Holiday, except with the employer’s permission.

Non-Jewish employees: The employer is not liable to pay non-Jewish employees for Jewish Holidays in addition to the Holidays of his/her faith. In this case the employee must choose whether to receive payment for Jewish Holidays or Holidays of his/her faith.

Erev Chag – In work places where the work week is 6 days, work on Erev Chag is 7 hours (payment is for 9 hours- full day) and in places where the work week is 5 days, work on Erev Chag is 8 hours (payment is for 9 hours- full day).

Hol-Hamoed: There are no directives in the law with regard to Hol-Hamoed or the payment for work on these days. As far as the law is concerned, these are regular, normal work days. This is of course unless there is a collective agreement at the place of work which specifies differntly,or if it is specifically mentioned in an employee’s work contract.

This directive commenced by power of the comprehensive mandatory order about shortening the work week to 43 hours, which went into effect on July 1, 2000 and applies to all employees and employers in the State of Israel.