Unemployment israel

'If some businesses could renew operations now, they cannot do so fully because Israel was in a rush to send all the workers on unpaid leave'

Some 77% of unionized workers expressed their confidence that they would return to work in May, including 40% who were very confident.

Laid off employees ages 67 and above and company owners are not entitled to unemployment pay under the coronavirus emergency regulations. But they may perhaps qualify for an “adaptation grant”

Employees at dozens of branches of the Israeli Employment Service have churned their way through over 900,000 new applications since the start of March, as the unemployment rate has exceeded 25%

The southern port city of Eilat is the hardest hit city nationwide, with the unemployment rate soaring from 3.3% at the end of February to 69.3% on Sunday.

Instead of building new useless homes, the members of the pending coalition from Likud and Blue and White should be thinking about what they can personally do to serve as role models for the public.

The number of unemployment benefit claimants has climbed to almost 939,500, or 22.6% of the workforce.

Around 5,400 inquiries came this week from industrialists and factories who are looking to understand how to deal with the economic impacts of the coronavirus.

After the Employment Service website crashed due to the high level of traffic, the government body said it had expanded its server capacity to handle increased demand.

Over 1,000 olim attended an employment fair organized by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry.