Social security

The bartender beat the National Insurance Institute: Cash tips will be considered part of wages

A bartender was injured on her way to work, but the National Insurance Institute calculated benefits on payslips alone. The court ruled cash tips also count as income.

A bartende
Meir Spiegler

"The Treasury took hundreds of billions from National Insurance surpluses"

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

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New PA law 'disaster' for Palestinian future

“When the new law takes away the right of Palestinian widows to inherit the pensions of their deceased husbands, it asks them indirectly never to ever get married again,” al-Dababseh said.

Public servants of the Palestinian Authority queue to receive their salaries outside a bank in Gaza City May 3, 2018.