If there are no Haredi businesses, who will hire Haredim?
Since then, the current government has proposed instituting measures that propose to prevent those who don't hold down jobs from benefiting from Israel's welfare state. Those measures are specifically targeted at Haredim. The government is now telling the Haredim, 'you must find jobs.'
With the secular employment market largely closed to Haredim (been there and done that), the government is now targeting the one possible source of employment for Haredim - Haredi-run businesses - with a discriminatory crackdown to make sure that they don't pick up the slack (Hat Tip: Aryeh Z).
In a document leaked to the media, YWN-ISRAEL has learned that the compliance unit of the Ministry of Economic Affairs has ordered a crackdown on chareidi businesses. The directive, entitled “Directives- Initiated activity in the chareidi community – May 2013″ is signed by Ms. Ravit Tichover, who heads the unit. The directive calls for an inspection to determine compliance to labor laws in chareidi businesses and mosdos chinuch.
The inspections will be May 26, 2013 until May 30, 2013. Inspectors from the unit will be assigned lists of businesses and mosdos, based on the number of employees. The inspectors will be looking out for violations such as law governing overtime, providing employees with adequate breaks, payment of minimum wage, payment of pension and other mandated benefits, as well as deductions and many other matters pertaining to employee rights.
While some will applaud the inspections, which seek to safeguard employee rights and benefits under Israel’s labor laws, others will question why businesses are being selected by affiliation with the chareidi tzibur as opposed to a general inspection of businesses and mosdos.Not to mention payments 'off the books.'
Look, it's no secret that a lot of people here get paid 'off the books.' But it's not just the Haredim. I recall with some pride the day that daughter #1, child #1 came home from Hebrew University - which is about as secular as an Israeli university outside of Haifa or Beersheva gets - and announced that among all her friends, she was the only one whose parents weren't cheating on their income taxes....
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Haredim, Israeli economy, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:55 PM
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Lapid and company are trying to break the Haredi world (and this includes Bennett who keeps saying that he backs Lapid 100% even though Lapid doesn't back Bennett in the same way).
Bennett's referendum bill was shelved because Lapid refused to back it.
They're trying to corner the Haredim so that the only way out is to stop being Haredi if they want their children to have food.
This should not be happening in Israel.
What is wrong with Bennett that he can't function as a politician without having a Survivor Game alliance with another party?
Their alliance voted the Haredi parties "off the island" (just like the Survivor Game reality show in the U.S.) and now they're trying to break the Haredim completely.
If Bennett can't be his own politician without having another party joined at his hip, then he shouldn't be in politics.
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