Judicial assistants informed the director of the courts administration and the treasury's wage director on Wednesday that in light of the failure of negotiations with them, they would launch an indefinite strike from Sunday until reaching a collective agreement in principle.
There are 650 assistants, most of them women, whose role is to assist in drafting decisions and rulings, in managing cases and in writing legal opinions. They are employed under personal contracts that are renewed every year, and their work is limited to a period of four years, with the possibility of an extension of two additional years, when they are dismissed - regardless of the quality of their work.