חוק הגנה על עובדים בשעת חירום (תיקון מס' 5 והוראת שעה – חרבות ברזל), התשפ"ד-2023Law on Protection of Workers in Emergency (Amendment No. 5 and temporary provision – Iron Swords), 2023 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

This law establishes, as a temporary provision for three months (with the possibility of extension of all or part of it, up to 12 months), protection against dismissal for an employee who was absent from work or did not perform their work, for one of the following reasons: (a) The employee was evacuated from one of the settlements listed in the appendix; (b) The employee is a parent or spouse of a missing or abducted person, or is the child or sibling of an abducted person or another family member of an abducted or missing person, and declared that the absence or failure to perform work resulted from this. (c) The employee was absent because they have a child up to age 14 and their spouse or the child's other parent is a soldier or is performing work service or other service listed in Section 11 of the law. (4) The employee was absent from work because they themselves are abducted or missing. (5) The employee was absent due to the closure of their child's educational institution - even if the closure resulted solely from a notice by the local authority or by the educational institution itself. The law also establishes, as a temporary provision for two years, which may be extended by an additional year, that an employer of an abducted or missing employee will be required to continue making full pension fund contributions on their behalf during the period they are abducted or missing, in order to preserve continuity of rights, and the National Insurance Institute will reimburse the employer for this. The National Insurance Institute will pay the pension fund deposits for an abducted or missing self-employed person, as well as for an abducted or missing person whose employment ended in the five months preceding the abduction or absence, and also for a person whose employment ends afterward, during the period they are abducted or missing. The law establishes, as a permanent provision, that the protection against dismissal granted due to the need to supervise a child also applies to a child in a foster family, subject to the approval of the foster care supervisor.

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