Unemployment
Working from home? You are at high risk of layoffs
While everyone is afraid that AI will take their jobs, new data from Gallup points precisely to another group that stands out among those laid off: Employees who worked fully remotely.
Tech workers laid off and collapsing under the mortgage burden
After Wix: Elementor fires about 30% of its employees
Shockwave in tech: The giant company parted ways with 21,000 employees within a year
Finance Ministry, National Insurance solve maternity benefit crisis
Women who had been unemployed or on unpaid leave for extended periods of time will now be eligible for maternity benefits for babies born between January 1 and June 30 of this year.
Israel's economic recovery from COVID-19 will take years, report finds
Returning to full employment will probably take a number of years.
Israel Innovation Authority grants NIS 139 m. to hi-tech training
"The programs will increase the number of new hi-tech employees by tens of thousands and bolster Israel's digital transformation, as well as provide a rapid response to unemployment."
Finance Ministry reports moderate recovery in job market
Before the second lockdown, 17% of those on unpaid leave reported in August that they are expecting to return to their jobs. In October, that number dropped to 13%.
Thousands of Israelis pushed into poverty amid COVID-19 pandemic - report
Compared to the year before, some 268,000 new households - around 3% of the population - were pushed into poverty.
Knesset approves employer reporting to collect real-time unemployment data
Roughly a million Israelis are currently out of work due to the COVID-19 lockdown policy, with reports about domestic violence and spreading poverty growing at alarming rates.
Coronavirus severely impacts employees with disabilities, survey suggests
The unemployment rate among employees with disabilities was 41% in February before the corona outbreak, and has since increased to 62% in October, according to the survey.
World Bank warns of $760m. Palestinian Authority funding deficit in 2020
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the PA could be forced to cut basic services, including medical ones, unless it found a way to make up the shortfall.
Unemployment in Israel at 22.7% with 938,000 people jobless
Unemployment during lockdown in October was nearly double what it was in September.
The chief justice, employees, employers and coronavirus
A ‘Magazine’ exclusive on Varda Wirth Livne, the woman attempting to hold the workplace world together
