A 40-year-old Palestinian construction worker, Mohammed Shihadeh Agrieb, from Tarkumya in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was killed Sunday, August 4, in the city of Hod HaSharon in central Israel. Agrieb’s death brought the total number of fatal workplace accidents since the beginning of 2019 to 51, 29 of them in construction sites. The most recent worksite…
Following reports that Arkia Airlines is planning to lay off 250 out of its 650 employees after the closure of Tel Aviv’s Sde Dov Airport, the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) has declared a labor dispute with the carrier. “Even though the employment security of Arkia’s workers is ensured by a collective agreement…
The rate of unemployment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) rose in 2018 to about 31% of the participants in the labor force compared to about 28% in 2017. In absolute terms, the number of unemployed individuals increased from 377,000 in 2017 to 426,000 in 2018, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)…
In response to a petition submitted to the High Court of Justice by Kav LaOved – Worker’s Hotline – starting last month any safety order imposed by the government against a construction site, factory or farm deemed unsafe for employees or the general public and for which it was ordered closed must be disseminated in…
Arab and Ethiopian women in Israel earn less than half of the national average salary and are the most disadvantaged groups in the country’s job market, according to a survey of minorities in the labor market released on Monday, February 18. Overall, women’s salaries are 59% of men’s salaries in Israel, the survey found. The…
A school in a West Bank settlement recently fired its Arab cleaning staff, all of them Israeli citizens, after parents threatened to shut down the school if the workers remained employed. Parents in the settlement of Karnei Shomron appealed last week to the head of the local council, Yigal Lahav, and threatened to invoke a…
The National Union of Students announced on Saturday evening, November 10, that starting Monday the 12th students at eight public colleges throughout Israel will launch a strike in support of senior staff at these institutions of higher learning whose own strike entered its fourth week on Sunday. About 30,000 students have not been able to…
The unions of junior academic staff at public colleges announced a strike on Sunday morning, October 21, in an effort to improve their members’ employment conditions. The colleges on strike include Sapir College, Kinneret College, Ruppin Academic Center, the Kibbutzim College, the Holon Institute of Technology, Achva Academic College, the Tel Hai Academic College and…
The junior staffs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University began open-ended strikes on Sunday, October 14, over pay and working conditions. The organizers of the strike in the Negev university released the following statement on Saturday evening: “The Association of Junior Academic Staff at Ben-Gurion University has announced that commencing Sunday,…
Israel’s largest workers union, the Histadrut Labor Federation, is planning a labor dispute and is considering calling a general strike in early October following the latest in a rash of construction site accidents which have resulted in the death of dozens of workers since January of this year. On August 14, two workers fell to…