A requirement to return the exemption from the international staff’ tax: “A demise sentence for the previous folks’s houses

A requirement to return the exemption from the international staff’ tax: “A demise sentence for the previous folks’s houses [ad_1]

For years, the ABA group (Nursing Properties and Sheltered Housing Affiliation) has been combating for the suitable of the nursing departments within the nursing houses to make use of personnel from overseas within the nursing professions.

Attributable to the truth that Israelis nearly utterly keep away from getting into the sphere, the nursing houses suffered from a steady manpower scarcity of about 8,000 caregivers, and the nursing employees buckled beneath the load.

In July 2020, the Netanyahu-Ganz authorities with then and now Inside Minister, Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, decided that for the primary time authorized the allocation of two,500 permits for the employment of international staff within the nursing care business. The federal government additionally determined then, in cooperation with the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Knesset then and now, chairman of the Torah Flag MK Moshe Gafni, to behave to cancel the annual charges to the Inhabitants and Immigration Authority for the employment of the international caregivers.

The choice was made as a result of the nursing houses claimed then, and nonetheless declare at the moment, that they can't meet this fee because of their precarious monetary scenario, specifically towards the background of the numerous bills caused by the corona disaster, a few of which proceed to at the present time. In apply, the charges have been canceled as a matter in fact solely till March 2022 on the request of the Ministry of Finance.

Now the heads of the ABA are contacting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu straight, and within the letter they despatched to him they state: “Sadly, the Knesset and the earlier authorities didn't perceive the significance of canceling the charges, and their cancellation was not prolonged past final March. That is regardless of our warning that it is a demise sentence for nursing houses, and harming tens of 1000's of aged folks in nursing care.”

A.Ba Chairman Yuli Gat and CEO Nachi Katz wrote to the Prime Minister: “You ordered in 2020 to take away the limitations and limitations to bringing in international staff who will work in nursing, and now we're calling in your assist and your pressing intervention to revive the price exemption for the employment of caregivers in establishments, in order that we are able to grant The mother and father of all of us have the great care they want and deserve.”

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