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Feb 22, 2016
Proposed Law: 90 days off to treat kids
MK Uri Maklev (UTJ), along with a slew of other MKs , has proposed a law that would allow a parent to miss up to 90 days of work per year to accompany a child that needs regular medical care for a serious illness. The 90 days would be deducted from the employees vacation and sick days.
Qualifying sicknesses would be anything requiring dialysis or anything approved by the Minister of Commerce in coordination with the Ministers of Health and Finance.
Obviously, the reason such a law is important is that it will allow parents to get treatment for their kids without having to worry about losing their jobs for needing to take so much time off of work.
source: TheMarker
What do parents do if they do not have 90 sick and vacation days accrued in their "account"? Most employees do not have that many days available to them. Who covers the payment for the days in excess of what the employee actually has coming to him or her?
Qualifying sicknesses would be anything requiring dialysis or anything approved by the Minister of Commerce in coordination with the Ministers of Health and Finance.
Obviously, the reason such a law is important is that it will allow parents to get treatment for their kids without having to worry about losing their jobs for needing to take so much time off of work.
source: TheMarker
What do parents do if they do not have 90 sick and vacation days accrued in their "account"? Most employees do not have that many days available to them. Who covers the payment for the days in excess of what the employee actually has coming to him or her?
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I would guess that this law is meant to guarantee that the job would not be lost due to too much time off. If it was intended to also provide financial assistance, the law would stipulate that the days would not be deducted from vacation and sick days.
ReplyDeletewhy? vacation and sick days are paid days. if it is being deducted from that it means it is paid "vacation-sick". I understand there would be a greater benefit to the employee by just giving him 90 days and not deducting it, but it is still a benefit, albeit slightly smaller, to be allowed that much time even at the expense of your vacation and sick days
ReplyDeleteYes, those days are paid, but you are using them up to care for someone else, and not yourself. After you run out of both, you can take unpaid leave and not lose your job over it. That's all.
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