- Having Sundays as a full day off, with the working week being from Monday – Friday (Friday a shortened day of 6.5 hours and the rest of the week being a half hour longer every day)
- Having a random day (not necessarily Fridays) being a shortened day of 5-6 hours, with the other days being lengthened by a half hour a day
- Adding 4 national holiday days to the calendar. The days would be Sundays to give the "long weekend", and would not coincide with any chagim.
- Adding 4-6 holiday days to any worker that receives the minimum holidays days (or close to- whatever that means). The holidays would NOT have to be used in a calendar year
- Adding 6 days to the workers holiday days, that would only count as a half day
They are asking the general public to voice their opinion, whether specifically these options, or others that have not been suggested by:
Email: - nec@pmo.gov.il
Mail:- המועצה הלאומית לכלכלה, משרד ראש הממשלה, רח' קפלן 3, הקריה, ירושלים,
91919
Fax:- 03 670 5677
The link to the article is here: http://www.shituf.gov.il/discussion/646
(thanks to Dani S for the info provided)
My opinion is that they should implement the full combination of all the above possibilities, and Israel should move to a half day work week.
YOU should be in the Knesset!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. Ben Gurion had a similar idea, when asked if he was in favour of a 5 day week. He said, yes, let's start with one day, and work up to 5.
ReplyDeleteActually Israelis work longer than the rest of the world, as we work 08:00 to 17:00 or 9 hours 5 days a week, meaning 45 hours a week. In other countries, that work 09:00 to 17:00 this is 8 hours 5 days a week, which is 40 hours a week, so we work more. So let's take off Sunday, now we work 36 hours a week, and do the extra 4 whenever you wish.
In other countries if a public holiday (chag by us) comes out on a weekend, they re compensated by having the adjoining Monday off as well, so they feel they are actually having a holiday. That should be done here, as if Shavuot falls on Shabbat there is no extra day, if it falls in the middle of the week, there is.
Why does the government decide when businesses are open?
ReplyDeleteFrom personal experience I find the whole conversation odd.
ReplyDeleteIn America, I worked from 8am to 6pm, 5 days a week.
In Israel I work from 10am to 5:39pm, 5 days a week.
However, I hope and pray that Israel does not shoot itself in the foot and take Sundays off. I really rely on my no working on Fridays to prepare for Shabbat, and working on Sundays to get things done for clients.
In the US, people are not paid for lunch during work hours, so the actual time spent at work is always longer than 8 hours. Typically people work 9 hours with time off for lunch (for which they aren't paid). I've yet to meet anyone who works longer hours in Israel than they do in the US. Usually Israeli employees work an hour a day less or so, and have double or triple the vacation days than their US counterparts.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at salaried workers in the US, they often put in far more than 9 hours work a day. It's not uncommon for people to work 10-16 hours a day with only 1-2 weeks vacation per year. And no, people do not get an extra day off if a holiday falls on a weekend. That's true only for government employees and some bank employees. That wouldn't apply to anyone else.
Offhand I can't think of another Western country where people work longer hours than in the US. I'm not sure where the idea came from that Israelis work more--they don't come anywhere close to the amount of work hours worked in the US.