27/05/2008
More and more workers in Israel are being employed on an hourly basis, i.e. their wage is calculated per working hours, rather than on a monthly basis. According to data collated by Kav LaOved these hourly workers constitute almost half of the total workers in Israel (nearly 45 percent). In general, it can be said that these are the most vulnerable workers in the labor market: they receive minimum wage or less, and do not enjoy the extensive benefits provided by hefty individual contracts, or arising from generous collective agreements. Most of the time these workers are not employed long enough to benefit from stability and improving working conditions, but they do not work for a short enough period to be considered temporary workers.

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