Domestic Workers NII Payments & Benefits

The National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi)

You must pay the NII (Bituach Leumi) for your domestic worker even if this is against the worker’s wishes. If you fail to do so, you will find yourself liable.

You must pay monthly with payment vouchers from the NII, which you can receive at any branch of the Bituach Leumi – please keep the receipts for seven years.

Payment to the National Insurance Institute

The law states that anyone who employs a household employee at home, even if it is only several hours a week must pay National Insurance and this payment obligation under the law applies also to foreign workers. The initial registration should be done within two weeks of beginning employment. The Regular payment after registration must be paid twice a year: on January 10 and July 10, according to a calculation of 7.25% of the worker’s salary; 5.25% paid by the employer and 2% deducted from the worker’s pay.

Please use this link to complete the Bituach Leumi form.

Convalescence

This is a legal term and it does not mean someone was sick and is recovering now. This is a sum paid anyway to the employee if the employee completed at least one full year of work.

The current sum for one day of convalescence is 318 Shekels.

Vacation

Severance Pay

Severance pay must be paid to employees fired by the employer. An employee who resigned voluntarily is not entitled to compensation, unless the resignation was made in the context of medical problems, divorce, child care or bad work conditions. The rate of severance pay is one month salary per year of work with the same employer or the same workplace.

Sick days

Sick days are days of the employee’s absence due to illness but approved by a doctor and they are calculated as follows: