Labor
Rami Levy faces class-action lawsuit over wage deductions from supermarket cashiers
Rami Levy must file its defense in the class action within 30 days, after which the court will decide how the case will proceed.
Fewer candidates, more hired: What happened in the job market in August?
Changes to working hours and minimum wage in Israel for 2026
Israel imports record foreign workforce to replace Palestinians, but housing crisis looms
From Haredi cities to the Sharon: Where was the sharpest spike in job seekers recorded?
A 24.4% surge in Haredi job seekers and summer teacher layoffs drove up July unemployment, alongside ongoing growth in higher socioeconomic clusters.
Yair Golan's Democrats list for the Knesset cements Labor's shift to the far Left - opinion
To Yair Golan’s credit, he inherited a political party on the verge of collapse after his predecessor, Merav Michaeli, had led Labor to an electoral disaster in the 2022 election, securing four seats
The labor market has not yet recovered from the war
The labor market continues to recover, but the road to the pre–war routine is still long: There were 169,000 job seekers in June.
Labor court blocks Walla layoffs, overhaul pending talks with journalists’ union
The ruling explained, in a unionized workplace, a company cannot proceed with layoffs before giving the union the information needed to understand, question, and offer solutions to the plan.
LGBTQ defunding risks layoffs and service cuts, labor union warns MK Golan
Histadrut HaMaof, a branch of Israel's national labor federation, demanded that the government halt the move and hold talks with workers’ representatives before any funding is cut.
Head of Rabbis for Human Rights Avi Dabush to run in Democrats Party primaries
The left-wing Democrats Party is composed of the Labor and Meretz parties, which merged in 2024. Dabush is expected to run for one of the reserved Meretz slots on the party’s list.
US Labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct probe
The Labor Department’s inspector general is nearing the end of a months-long investigation into a whistleblower’s allegations of professional misconduct by Chavez-DeRemer.
India’s quiet role in Israel’s labor reset after Oct. 7 - opinion
The entry of Indian blue-collar labor into the construction segment marks a structural shift in how Israel sources labor, manages risk, and builds resilience in an era of chronic insecurity.
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.
Number of Israeli job seekers fell in January 2026 amid tight labor market
Overall, Israel’s labor market has remained tight over the past year, with the ratio of vacancies-to-job-seekers around one-to-one.
