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Announcing “Employee’s Rights Handbook” book launch and lectures

Moshe

Book launch and lecture will be held:

In Jerusalem: on May 19th, 2015  19:00  at AACI Jerusalem, The Glassman family center Pierre Keonig st. corner of 2 Poalei Tzedek st., 4th floor (opposite Hadar mall)

In Tel-Aviv: on June 17th, 2015 16:00 at AACI Tel-Aviv, 94 A Allenby st.

 

The “Employee’s Rights Handbook”

The first comprehensive, English language guide to Israeli payroll.
Whether  you are an employer or an employee, a new oleh or an English speaker who has trouble with the Hebrew terms, this publication is for you!

 

Employees:

Understand the terminology, layout and Hebrew on your payslip

Know your rights

Understand the labor laws

What needs to be itemized on the payslip?

What are the things you need to know upon termination?

How many vacation days are you entitled to?

Is Purim a paid holiday?

What are the rights of a pregnant employee?

 

Employers:

Do your payslips comply with all the new regulations?

Do you issue employees “notification of terms of employment” as required?

Are employees given a fair hearing prior to termination?

Understand what obligatory payments exist in Israel

What is allowed to be deducted from an employee’s salary

Are you aware of penalties for infringement on regulations and labor laws? (avoid this by knowing what needs to be done)

 

In this guide you will find:
* An overview of labor laws, regulations, expanded regulation orders, collective
agreements and statutes

* The make-up of the Israeli payslip

* Social Security

* Health Insurance
* Income tax

* Holiday pay, sick day payment, vacation, overtime payment, bereavement leave,
maternity leave

* Minimum wage

* Youth employment
* Advance notice                       And much more!

 

A must for employers and employees alike. Get your copy today! This 107 page publication in hard-copy is not available in stores, on-line orders:

 

http://www.israpay.com/announcing-the-release-date-for-employees-rights-handbook/

Announcing the release date for Employee’s Rights Handbook !!!!

Moshe

Finally, the long awaited Employee’s Rights Book is to be released in Hard copy. The release date is Sunday March 15, 2015

At present, this is the only format. There may be a PDF purchase option at a later date.

The book is 107 pages of vital information for employers, employees and anyone interested in Employee’s rights, labor laws and the makeup of payroll in Israel.

Announcing the first and only English language guide in simple easy to understand language !!!

The Book also contains a dictionary of common Hebrew payroll terms and their English translation, examples of payroll forms, useful contact information, tips and more.

Get your copy today,  and know your rights !

price: 100 sh (including mailing). Optional self-pickup in Jerusalem (85 sh).
Payment via credit card or paypal, use this link:

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or follow the schedule an appointment on the left hand side of the home page of this site.
If you encounter a scheduling error notice, send the following details:
(Name, mailing address, email address, phone/cell number. If you wish that the invoice be made out to a different name than the one you supplied, please state)
to moshe.israpay@gmail.com and An invoice will be emailed to you. When you open the invoice you will have the ability to pay.

Check payments option:  send a check made payable to Moshe Egel-Tal along with the above info to

Israpay
P.O. Box 44429
Jerusalem 9144302

 

 

 

 

Partial Vacation Days

Moshe

What happens if an employee takes a half day of paid vacation ?

In terms of payment, they would receive a full day’s pay. However, the issue isn’t as simple when debiting an employee’s vacation day balance. Apparently, as reflected by a recent labor court verdict, which determined that any day that an employee shows up at work is to be considered a work day. The same day cannot be counted twice !

The same would apply towards half days taken as sick days. In actuality, they are work days and travel expenses will need to be paid for them. The missing hours should be deducted as such and the payment should be itemized separately.

The employer and employee can agree on payment for half days and there are certain sectors that have explicit sections about this issue.

 

Calculating Vacation & Havra’a

Moshe

This article was published at the Voleh blog.

Havra’a is a mandatory payment by law. It is paid annually to all employees who have at least one year’s tenure with their current employer. There are several rates (for private and public sector) and they are updated each year in June. Continue reading “Calculating Vacation & Havra’a” →

What happens to unused vacation days ?

Moshe

 

What happens to unused vacation days ?

Submitted by Moshe on Mon, 08/11/2010 – 20:23

If your employer has a policy of erasing unused vacation days that have been accrued, then basically it’s “use them or lose them”.
This is totally legal provided the employer notifies the employees in ample time to allow them to utilize the accrued days.

If an employee has 10 accrued days, the employer can’t notify the employee on Dec 31st that the days will not be carried over to January. He can and should specify this in employee’s contracts or notification of work conditions as well as a reminder in Sept or Oct with the payslip and notification on employee notice boards.

If such policy does not exist then the days are accrued and carried over from one year to the next. This is easily checked as the balance must be listed on the paylsip.

When an employee resigns or is terminated his position, all unused vacation days that have been accrued are paid out on the last payslip.

How many vacation days is an employee entitled to ?

Moshe

There is generally some confusion as to the exact number of vacation days an employee is entitled to. This is due to the fact that the wording of the law uses the term “days” and not “work days”
According to the directives of this law, all employees are entitled to paid annual vacation. Vacation days are included in the basic labor laws and cannot be waived.

Special employees, as defined by additions to the annual vacation law, may be entitled to enlarged allotment of vacation days under certain conditions. For example: Employees who deal with radiation that comply with the conditions in the addition to the law are entitled to 21 days annually, Nurses, Doctors, and others who come in contact with sick people, under certain conditions outlined in the addition to law are entitled to 42 day annually. But in these cases the vacation days cannot be accumulated beyond the year, they need to be utilized.

The vacation days must be consecutive, unless both employer and employee agree, then at least one week must be consecutive and the rest can be sporadic. This is probably the reason for the wording of the law to begin with.

Vacation days are not allocated in one shot, neither at the beginning of the year nor at the end. The net annual allotment (the allotment less the weekly rest days) are divided into 12 and each month that the employee works, entitles him to the monthly allocation. Of course the percentage of the employee’s position is also a factor, so if an employee was employed at a 50% position, he would be entitled to half the vacation allocation that a full-time positioned employee would be entitled to and so forth.

Another important thing is that in many work places there is an enlarged annual vacation allotment. This is usually due to a work agreement. Special attention should be given when an employee is entitled to a larger allotment than the law. The law provides certain protective restrictions which are meant to ensure

If an employee has acrued vacation days that haven’t been utilized, some employers erase them at year’s end. others allow acrual up to a maximum number of days.
Both of these are legal, provided the employer notifies the employees in advance.
In addition, the balance at the start of the month, monthly acrual, used days and new balance for the end of the month must all be shown on the payslip.
Employers must also allow employees to take vacation, but can dictate when it is convenient for them that the employee take vacation.

Tenure of 1 -4 years = 14 vacation days *
Tenure of 5 years = 16 vacation days *
Tenure of 6 years = 18 vacation days *
Tenure of 7 years = 21 vacation days *
Tenure of 8 years = 22 vacation days *
Tenure of 9 years = 23 vacation days *
Tenure of 10 years = 24 vacation days *
Tenure of 11 years = 25 vacation days *
Tenure of 12 years = 26 vacation days *
Tenure of 13 years = 27 vacation days *
Tenure of 14 years and up = 28 vacation days *

 

* The allotment of vacation days in the table above  includes one weekly rest day for each seven days of vacation. For Jewish employees, this would be Shabbat for an employee who is employed 6 days a week and Friday and Shabbat for an employee who is employed 5 days a week.
According to this, for example, an employee who is employed 5 days per week would be entitled annually to 10 paid vacation days, whereas an employee who is employed 6 days per week would be entitled annually to 12 paid vacation days.