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On Sunday, members of the “Minimum 40” movement protested outside a cabinet meeting which included a vote for Finance Minister Liberman’s proposed plan to increase the minimum wage by 0.54 shekels per hour, as part of a long-term increase of the national minimum wage. Minimum 40 claims that this plan is actually a move to prevent a more fair increase to the minimum wage as currently dictated by law.
Liberman’s outline, embellished with promises to add paid leave days and improve home-life flexibility, aims to raise the minimum wage from NIS 29.12 per hour to NIS 33 per hour by December 2025; critics, including Minimum 40, argue that this is a move to undermine the current law which would see a much more significant and immediate increase to the minimum wage.
Alon-Lee Green, Standing Together’s co-director, explained that Liberman’s plan is not as beneficial to workers as it seems: “According to the law, the minimum wage should be updated frequently [in tandem with] the average wage in the economy. Since the average wage has drastically gone up, the minimum wage was supposed to go up. Lieberman's move freezes the update, bringing instead a low increase of 54 cents. This is actually an erosion of the minimum wage.”
The vote on the outline was...
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