Have you submitted hundreds of resumes and received no response? This law may reduce the mental anguish associated with searching for a job in the modern era. The Knesset plenum approved on second and third reading the Notice to the Employee (Working Conditions) Bill (Amendment No. 6), 2014 by MK Haim Katz, which proposes that an employer provide a job candidate participating in job selection procedures with a written notice of the progress of the job selection procedures – at least once every two months from the date the candidate began participating in the selection procedures. The employer will also provide a notice of the candidate's non-acceptance of the job – no later than 14 days from the date another person was accepted for the job for which the selection procedures were conducted.
According to the proposal, the aforementioned provisions will not apply to jobs where the work period does not exceed 30 days, work in the catering industry, and work for someone who employs no more than 25 employees. The Minister of Economy has been authorized, with the approval of the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, to determine additional exceptions.
The explanatory notes to the proposal state: "In the modern job market, there are many candidates who apply for every potential job. As a result, over the years, the status of the job candidate has been devalued, while completely ignoring the employer's basic moral obligations towards the interviewee regarding the conclusion of the job interview or the selection process. Thus, job candidates often find themselves waiting until they receive a negative or positive answer, or alternatively waiting for some kind of communication from the potential employer, and even stopping their search for another job so as not to miss the opportunity for the job they wanted, which often results in the loss of other potential jobs.".
The initiator of the law and chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Haim Katz: "This is proposal number 177 that the Labor and Welfare Committee has passed in a term and a half, which affected the most vulnerable populations.
"Sometimes the person waits for an answer and as if nothing happened. Sometimes he doesn't even go to other interviews. The proposal seeks to oblige employers to give an answer to a person as a person. The time has come for them not to treat employees as objects but as people, and the minimum is to give an answer to someone they interviewed.".
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