Soon, as many as 100,000 disabled people will be integrated into the Israel workforce, thanks in large part to ILAN, under the leadership of its chairman, Ehud Rassabi.
Signing the Agreement: Ehud Rassabi (left) with Zvika Oren, Chairman of the Presidium of Business Organizations and Avi Nissenkorn, Chairman of Histadrut
Mr. Rassabi, as president of Lahav, an umbrella organization for independent and small businesspeople − and working with the Presidium of Israeli Business Organizations and with Histadrut, the organization of Israeli workers − engineered an agreement that will result in a dramatic increase in the number of handicapped persons employed in Israel. This agreement was signed in June 2014 and affects businesses that all together account for two-thirds of Israeli workers. It stipulates that any firm employing 100 or more people must ensure that 3% of its employees qualify as “disabled.”
Having achieved this success in the private sector, Mr. Rassabi and his colleagues met with the Minister of the Economy, who then mandated that any government agency with 75 or more employees must ensure that 5% qualify as disabled. Ideally, these regulations will be inscribed into law, and a bill to that end has been introduced in the Knesset.
The agreements were implemented in September 2014, and a survey will be conducted in the summer of 2016 to assess their effectiveness. It is estimated that the influx of disabled persons into the workforce will add $1.25 billion annually to the Israeli economy.
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