Who is allowed to strike and whether you will be obliged to take a day off

Many workers and employers in the economy do not know how to relate to the planned shutdown as part of the business-private sector’s struggle against the legislative changes planned by the new government.

The protest, which has a political dimension, but not only, is not a shutdown of the economy in the legal sense familiar to us from cases of strikes in the public sector, but rather a unique case in which a voluntary protest in which workers and employers strike together as part of a political-political struggle.

Under these circumstances, many questions arise from the field of labor law regarding the rights of workers and employers in protest.

How should an employer treat employees who wish not to come to work tomorrow, and whether it is right and desirable to hold a discourse in the workplace under the auspices of the employer regarding the protest?

Director of our Labor Law Department, Adv. Limor Argov-Shenhav, answered these questions to Calcalist.

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