Such a pay hike would price the Ministry of Finance almost NIS 8 billion.
The Histadrut Basic Federation of Labor has remained quiet following the current 13% pay hike granted to Israel’s authorities ministers, MKs and senior civil servants. As with the remainder of the general public sector, the salaries of those senior figures have been frozen for the previous three years. Now when the Histadrut chiefs sit across the desk with the politicians within the new authorities to debate wage hikes, they may have a 13% marker to seek advice from.
The Histadrut has not made any public announcement about its calls for for the general public sector however the benchmark would be the profitable pay hike achieved by the lecturers in the summertime – 2.5% per 12 months for the 5 years wherein public sector pay has not risen. In different phrases Histadrut secretary common Arnon Ben-David might be demanding 13%.
Such a pay hike would price the Ministry of Finance almost NIS 8 billion. Financial institution of Israel Governor Prof. Amir Yaron has warned of the inflationary pressures of beneficiant pay hikes.
The Ministry of Finance officers will come to the negotiating desk with completely different concepts. They’ve seen public sector salaries creeping up in recent times regardless of the freezing of wage agreements in 2020. So in 2021 the typical wage for civil servants was NIS 17,368, up 1.3% from 2020 and up 1.6% from 2019. Over the identical interval salaries within the non-public sector rose by extra. Bar-David who agreed greater than two years in the past to postpone wage hikes for the general public sector now expects to obtain greater salaries for the interval wherein public sector staff waited. And any settlement reached will set the tone for wage agreements for different teams of employees.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on December 26, 2022.
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Arnon Bar-David credit score: Histadrut
