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2012 payroll changes: Income Tax – currently under legislation is a law that would allow working men to utilize the tax points allocated for children under 19 years old in place of their wives, who are unemployed or earn a minimum salary that doesn’t allow them to fully utilize the tax points. stay tuned.
motal7 wrote a new blog post: The Pension Test 6 months, 2 weeks ago · View
If you want to retire with a “normal” amount of pension, you need to be sure you are utilizing to the maximum the options available to you. In order to do this you must first understand the makeup of pension plans. There are basically three groups of pension plans for salaried employees: 1. Those who are [...]
Youth employment update (July 2011)
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In continuation of my previous blog entry on the issue of youth employment, The minimum wages have been raised (the rest of the information in my previous blog remain unchanged)
(effective to July 2011 salary) as follows:
The knesset has approved a raise of the minimum wages effective July 1, 2011. As a result the youth employment wage rates have been updated accordingly, as follows:
Age group———–monthly rate—-hourly rate
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Apprentices———–2,460———-14.22
up to age 16———-2,870———-16.59
from age 16 to 17—–3,075———-17.77
from age 17 to 18—–3,403———-19.67
age 18 and up———4,100———-22.04
moshe
Just in time for the summer vacation ! Make sure your teenage kids who found a summer-time job are paid according to the law. The new minimum wages for youth are as follows:
up to age 16 = 15.74 shekels per hour
up to age 17 = 16.87 ” ” ”
up to age 18 = 18.66 ” ” ”
There are special regulations in effect for employing youth:
1. They can not be under 14 years old.
2. They need to have an employment booklet, available for free from the government employment service (Sherut
Hata’asuka). In order to get the booklet a youth needs to bring 2 passport pictures and a doctor’s note that
he/she is healthy and fit to work.
3. The maximum amount of hours that youth can be employed is 8 hours per day and not more than 40 hours
per week. Overtime is not allowed ! Youth can not be employed on the weekly rest day (for jews – shabbat)
4. After 6 hours of work, youth must be granted 45 minutes break, of which at least 30 minutes consecutively.
5. Between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. the following day it is forbidden to employ youth under 16.
Between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. the following day it is forbidden to employ youth between age 16 and age 18,
unless apporved by special permission and even then not later than 11 p.m.
requests for permits should be applied for by phone 03-734-7440 (Ministry of Industry, Trade and
Employment)
6. The employer is required to keep a log of all hours worked by youth. If it is not done by a computer, electronic
or manual time-clock, it needs to be signed daily by both the youth employee and the employer. Youth should
be encouraged to keep a seperate log of their hours as well.
7. Travel expenses are mandatory for youth – up to 23.70 shekels per day.
8. Training hours and preparatory meetings, as well as trial periods are all mandatory paid hours.
9. It is totally forbidden to deduct money from youth’s salary for damages or fines.
10. Employers are required (the same as with adult employees) to issue a notification of employment within 7
days from the start of employment to each youth employee.
Moshe Egel-Tal, CSPP
CEO Israpay ”Making payroll simple”
A new update has been posted by the Authorities, effective July 2011 – please note my blog update in accordance.
The info contained in this blog is effective as of April 2011 until June 2011 (inclusive)
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