חוק הארכת השעיה של עובד המדינה ופיטורים של עובד הוראה לשם הגנה על קטין או חסר ישע (תיקוני חקיקה), התשפ"ד–2024Law Extension of Suspension of a Civil Servant and Dismissal of a Teaching Employee for the Purpose of Protecting a Minor or a Person in Need (legislative amendments), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law includes several legislative amendments intended to streamline the dismissal procedures for teaching staff employed by the state and the suspension of state employees whose conduct may endanger the welfare of minors or helpless persons residing in educational or other institutions. The State Education Law was amended to authorize the Director General of the Ministry of Education to dismiss a teaching employee who is a state employee at an official educational institution, if it was proven to his satisfaction that the employee engaged in conduct of a sexual nature that is of special severity given that he is a teaching employee, subject to granting the employee the right to make a case and a right of appeal. In addition, the existing arrangement in the School Supervision Law and the Law on Unique Cultural Educational Institutions was amended, regarding teaching employees employed by private employers and local authorities, and the Director General was authorized not to approve their employment if they were convicted of an offense that, due to its nature, severity or circumstances, renders them unfit to serve as education employees. Similarly, the Director General's authority to demand the dismissal of a service employee employed by a local authority at an educational institution was amended. In addition, the period of immediate suspension of a state employee employed at an institution as defined in the Law for the Prevention of Employment of Sex Offenders in Certain Institutions, such as schools, kindergartens and community centers, was extended to a period of up to 60 days. Alongside this, the Law allows the authorized body to suspend an employee who, as part of his work, is responsible for a minor or a helpless person and against whom an indictment was filed on suspicion of committing a sexual offense or severe violence against any minor or helpless person, and not only against a minor for whom he was responsible as part of his role, subject to the exercise of discretion and for special reasons, in accordance with the procedures applicable to these employees according to the type of employer.

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