Elbashan Fee recommends rising severance pay for ex-deputies – Muricas News

The Public Fee on Salaries of Knesset Deputies, chaired by Professor Elbashan, submitted a suggestion to the Fee for Knesset Affairs to extend the severance pay for deputies who didn't get into the Knesset following the elections.

Particularly, the fee really helpful, towards the backdrop of a collection of snap elections which have taken place lately, to pay severance pay to deputies who've served within the Knesset for lower than a 12 months.

The one exception that doesn't give the appropriate to severance pay will likely be a time period within the Knesset that started lower than 3 months earlier than the election.

Based on the advice, the severance pay will likely be calculated from the primary month of the time period, and never from the second 12 months. So, a deputy who has labored for 8 months will likely be entitled to a severance pay within the quantity of two-thirds of the wage, a deputy who has labored for a 12 months and a half will likely be entitled to a severance pay within the quantity of 1 and a half salaries, and never half of the wage, a deputy who has accomplished a full cadence can have the appropriate for a severance pay of 4 salaries, and never three salaries, as it's now.

The fee additionally really helpful an entire ban on spending the parliamentary finances on public relations for purchases from family members of a deputy and members of the households of parliamentary assistants.

The chairman of the Knesset Affairs Committee, Deputy Ofir Katz (Likud), is presently refusing to just accept the advice for consideration, calling it unworthy towards the backdrop of a rise in the price of dwelling.