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Meitar’s Employment and Benefits Group, has published a Client Update analyzing a recent case heard in the Israeli National Labor Court, regarding an independent contractor’s right to social benefits as an employee.

In order to prevent claims by independent contractors to receive social benefits as an employee, employers had included a section in their agreements with the independent contractor, according to which, if the independent contractor were to be deemed an employee the amounts paid to him shall be reduced accordingly by the amount of those social benefits granted to an employee. The Israeli National Labor Court has now ruled that this section is only one parameter and will not necessarily indicate the type of relationship between the parties.

The full update (in Hebrew) is available through the PDF icon.

Meitar’s Employment and Benefits Group, has published a Client Update regarding a possible change in employment agreements which will enable employers to calculate employee overtime hours on a monthly basis, and not on a daily basis, according to the Working Hours Law.

According to the Working Hours Law, an employee who works over 8.36 hours a day is entitled to an overtime payment. Many employers feel frustrated in light of this legal situation, since they do not supervise their employees’ arrival and departure and wish to give them the flexibility of arranging their own working hours.
The Labor Courts in Israel have permitted employers to agree with their employees on an alternative arrangement whereby the employees’ working hours will be flexible at the employer and employee’s convenience, as long as the employee fulfills the monthly hourly quota.

The full update (in Hebrew) is available through the PDF icon.