The Israeli Male and Female Workers Equal Pay Law of 1996 declares that men and women are entitled to equal pay for the same work. Nevertheless, most sectoral collective agreements in Israel afford only men with the right to a "family supplement". The current article seeks to understand the...

תקציר בעברית: המאמר מציע להטיל על ארגוני עובדים חובת שוויון חקיקתית. המאמר נפתח בספרות מתחום יחסי העבודה המראה שארגוני עובדים נוטים לעיתים לקדם שוויון ולעיתים...

Thirty years ago, in 1986, a collective agreement in Bank Leumi dealt with ending the work of perforators in an Israeli bank due to new technologies. The phenomenon of replacement of labor by technology in general, in the bank sector in particular, is not new. Nonetheless, new technologies such...

Welfare regimes differ in how they supply social benefits such as pensions, disability allowances,and unemployment funding. In several regimes, the social partners – employee unions andemployers’ associations – provide social benefits for workers. These regimes promote occupationalwelfare....

During the last 10 years, many OECD countries introduced reforms which included automatic enrolment or mandatory participation in privately managed pension schemes. The current article aims to reveal the benefits and costs of privately managed pension schemes. The article uses a study of pension...

Workers today face many labour market transitions (e.g., between work and caring for family members). This article is intended to make two main contributions to the ongoing debate on how the law should regulate labour market transitions. First, it aims to promote a better understanding of...

In this Article, the authors explore – through a survey of collective agreements, case law, unions’ constitutions and websites – how trade unions in Canada and Israel balance and effectively support the interests of older and young workers. While unions in both countries promote age...

Do workers’ unions promote gender equality? The scholarship in the past thirty years has increasingly questioned the ability of unions to give voice to the needs of all workers, including foreign workers, workers with disabilities, elderly workers, gay and lesbian workers, and women. This...