Employers cheating a third of workers of Shabbat overtime
Haim Bior; 23/4/08
In “Alice in Wonderland” the Red Queen says: You must run as fast as you can to stay in the same place. Apparently that is true for a lot of workers in Israel. About 327,000 workers, 15% of all salaried employees in Israel, work on their day of rest, according to a study conducted by the Industry, Trade, and Labor Ministry’s Research and Economics Administration. The ministry and the Histadrut labor federation say that 30% of these workers are not paid the higher wage to which they are entitled for such work. Nearly 60% of all salary earners who work on their day of rest say they are allowed no alternative day off, as required by law. A small minority, 9%, reported that they received alternative days of rest, but not regularly.