Labor and Social Affairs Ministry
Israeli truckers fear foreign workers may overtake industry if bureaucracy goes unchecked
Representatives from various levels of the logistics and delivery industry claim that Israel has a severe shortage of truck drivers, while the Transportation and Labor Ministries claim otherwise.
Israel's Knesset pushes to create daycare oversight authority after Jerusalem tragedy
Labor, Religious Services Ministries, to be transferred to Levin post-haredi party withdrawal
Number of workdays lost to strikes in Israel tripled over past year, Labor Ministry reveals
Thai farmworkers among the most vulnerable in Israel to Hamas rocket fire
The casualties suffered in migrant worker communities are in no small part due to government inaction on protecting foreign laborers.
Labor Ministry: Decline in work-related deaths - report
"Almost 70% of [building] sites do not report to us, they are not at all on our radar."
Ministry too busy with 'real problems' to investigate rape of the disabled
While parents of children with special needs were horrified by the report of the abuse and the response of the ministry, the truth is that few were surprised.
Vulnerable employees unprotected as labor enforcement dept. overtaxed
Some 15,000 requests to put pregnant women on unpaid leave have been submitted since the beginning of the pandemic; the annual average is only 1,000. "I can only handle a small number of complaints."
Emergency sensors offered for thousands of elderly people who live alone
'We were all appalled by the sad cases of elderly people who passed away in their homes and nobody knew about it. We are doing everything we can to prevent such situations'
Social Affairs Ministry to issue 30,000 vouchers for Passover food
The total amount spent by the ministry will come to NIS 9 million.
Israeli gay couple asked by ministry: 'Which of you is the mother?'
This is not the first time the couple has encountered such issues, but on prior occasions there was no insistence on the matter.
What should you do if you hear a rocket siren?
As rockets fly, welfare institutions, public health officials issue recommendations.
Study shows Israeli employment at record high, pay gaps remain
While the country's unemployment rate is a "healthy" 4%, the report details considerable obstacles that still remain in the integration of Arab women and ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce.
New govt program aims to provide free training, job placement in hi-tech
We Code aims to recruit young people from diverse populations – Arab-Israelis, Ethiopians, people with disabilities, ultra-Orthodox- as well as from the social periphery aged 25-30.
