Employing a Foreign Nursing Care Worker

This portal provides information on the right of an Israeli resident to employ a foreign nursing care worker, and also discusses the terms of that employment.

Those who do not reside in a long-term care facility, but who need supervision from a full-time nursing professional are eligible to receive a permit to employ a foreign worker. The information presented here is divided into three parts which constitute the process of employing a foreign nursing care worker:

• Eligibility criteria and obtaining recognition as a long-term care patient
• The process of obtaining permits to employ a foreign worker and recruit a foreign worker from a licensed office.
• Terms of employing a foreign worker including workers' rights with which the employer is obligated comply.

Important: A foreign worker is entitled to all the rights of an Israeli worker, including pension contributions, severance pay ect. To avoid legal proceedings and frustration, those employing foreign workers are obligated to financially prepare themselves in case of termination of employment, dismissal of the employee or the employer's death.

See also…

• Supportive Care (Rehabilitation, Long-Term Care, Assisted-Living)
• Long-Term Care Benefit
• People with Disabilities
• Rights Guide for Senior Citizens
• העסקת עובד זר בסיעוד

Rights and Instructions

• Rights of a foreign nursing care worker who is fired or whose patient is hospitalized or passes away
• rights of a foreign nursing care worker who quits his/her job
• An employer's guide to manage employees
• Recruiting and Acclimating Employees- An Employers Guide
• An Employer's Guide to Ending the Work Relationship
• Rights Guide for Individuals Caring for an Elderly Family Member or Person With Disabilities

Eligibility for Employing a Foreign Worker

• General information on employing a foreign nursing care worker
• Eligibility to Employ a Foreign Nursing Care Worker
• Employing a foreign worker after release from the hospital
• Dependency assessment test
• Dependency assessment test for those rejected by the National Insurance Institute due to high income
• Eligibility Exceptions for Employing a Foreign Nursing Care Worker
• Employing a second foreign nursing care worker
• Employing a Foreign Worker to Care for a Child with Disabilities

An employer who is hospitalized

• Long-Term Care Benefit During Hospitalization
• Rights of a foreign worker whose employer was hospitalized

Processes Related to Employing a Foreign Worker

• Obtaining a permit to employ a foreign nursing care worker
• Recruiting and guiding a foreign nursing care worker through a licensed office
• Extending a permit to employ a foreign nursing care worker
• Request for continuing employment of a foreign nursing worker on humanitarian grounds

General Conditions for Employment

• Foreign Workers Employment Contract
• Terms of employing a foreign worker
• Weekly day off for a foreign nursing care workers
• Vacation time for foreign nursing care workers
• Suitable housing for foreign workers
• Maintaining foreign worker employment documentation
• Prohibition of charging brokerage fees for foreign workers
• Limitations on changing a foreign nursing care worker's place of employment

Foreign Worker's Rights

• Foreign Workers Rights (portal)
• Health Insurance for Foreign Workers
• National Insurance for foreign workers
• Pension insurance for foreign workers
• Monthly Deposit Obligation for Employers of Foreign Workers in the Construction, Technology and Nursing Care.
• Withdrawal of the Deposit by a Foreign Worker in Construction, Technology and Nursing Care
• Income Tax Credit Points for Foreign Workers
• Foreign Workers Rights following the death of the care recipient or placement into nursing care.
• Filing a complaint about foreign workers' rights with the supervisor appointed to deal with such issues

Employer's Rights

• Reimbursement for a Foreign Workers Flight
• Permitted Deductions from a Foreign Worker's Salary
• Exemption from paying National Insurance contributions for foreign workers employed by a Long-Term Care Benefit recipient
• Written notification from a foreign worker prior to leaving a nursing care patient

Aid organizations

• Internet hot line for those who employ foreign nursing care workers
• Elder care law services
• Yad Riva - Legal aid for senior citizens
• Reut and Eshel - Guidance services for senior citizens and their families who care for them.
• Kav Lamassik Information and Legal Advice for Foreign Workers.
• Ba-Bayit- Welfare and Aid for the Golden Age
• Matav
• For a complete lists of organizations offering assistance and support to senior citizens
• For a comprehensive categorized listing of healthcare organizations offering assistance and support to people with disabilities click here.

Government agencies

• The Population and Immigration Authority
  • National Service and Information Center
• The Ministry of Economy - Commissioner of Foreign Workers' Rights
• The National Insurance Institute

Court Rulings

• For a list of court rulings on the topic of foreign workers

Laws & Regulations

• The Foreign Workers Law
• Employment Service Regulations (Payments from a Job Applicant for Job Brokering) 2006
• The Population and Immigration Ministry Procedures No. 9.2.0001 - Procedures for private offices to bring, mediate and care for foreign nursing care workers 2014.
• The Population and Immigration Ministry Procedures No. 9.2.0002 -Procedure for dealing with a new request or a request for a renewal to employ a foreign nursing care worker.

Additional publications

• Policy regarding employment of foreign workers on the Population, Immigration, and Border Crossing Authority's website
• Guide to employing foreign workers in the Government Services and Information Portal
• Rights leaflets for migrants working in the nursing field from Kav LaOved (Worker's Hotline).
• Foreign Workers' Rights 2013 - on the Foreign Ministry website

Credits

• Original translation performed by The Shira Pransky Project as part of a grant from The Fellowship Fund.