Labor unions and management signed an interim three-year agreement, Sunday evening, which will improve the working conditions for 6,000 Tax Authority employees.
The deals anchors a nine-percent pay increase to be distributed on a differential basis, as a specific shekel rate and as a percentage, according to the consumer price index. The goal is to strengthen the workers at the low end of the pay scale and narrow gaps between groups of workers. The hike is being divided in three, with the first stage being retroactive to January 1, 2017, the next one next January 1st and the third one early in 2019.