Supreme Court decides in favour of migrant worker portability between employers
The Supreme Court ordered the state to form a new employment scheme, which will allow migrant workers to resign without losing their legal status. The court used the following harsh language to describe the previous scheme "One must conclude painfully and shamefully that binding workers to employers created a form of modern slavery".
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The Right to Counsel
The Criminal Justice Program served as a model and a catalyst for the establishment of the National Public Defender’s Office.
Refugee Rights
The Refugee Rights Clinic is Israel’s first and only program specializing in promoting and protecting refugee and asylum-seekers rights.
Gay and Lesbian Rights
The right of same sex partners to inherit from their partners, even if they die without leaving a will, was recognized by an Israeli court.
The Right to Water
A new policy forbids disconnecting water from poor families who cannot afford to pay their water bills. This policy applies to all municipalities in Israel.
Migrant Workers Health Rights
Migrant workers are entitled to continued health insurance coverage, for their entire period of employment in Israel.
Rights for people with Mental Disability
The right of people with mental disabilities to receive legal representation in involuntary commitment hearings was recognized.
Educational Rights
Public Schools in the "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in the Negev were connected to electricity.
Access to Knowledge
The only public library in Sderot (a city in the Negev) was reopened, after it had been closed for over two years.
Discrimination against Arabs
An anti-discrimination case was settled, after the employer admitted that he fired two waitresses because they were Arabs, apologized and agreed to pay compensation.
Disabled People Rights
The right of toddlers with serious disabilities to transportation to rehabilitation day care centers was recognized and enforced.
Gender-Based Discrimination
An employee was awarded highly unprecedented punitive damages in a gender discrimination case.
Environmental Justice
The government was required to approve a new program to solve a sewage problem that harmed the health and environment of Bedouins in unrecognized villages.
Detainees’ Rights
The Supreme Court enforced the right of all detainees in Israel to have a bed to sleep on.
Workers Rights
The legal mechanism for enforcing minimum wage is more effective, following an amendment to the Minimum Wage Law.