MK Itzik Shmuli (Zionist Union), chairman of the Knesset lobby for social workers, welcomes the understandings reached and the end of the sanctions.
"This is a first step in the right direction and I welcome the understandings, but there will be no solution to the crisis as long as there is no serious response to the problem of improper socialization and wages of social workers."
"It is not logical that at any given moment there are 650 files on the social workers' desks and some of them are in need of income support, we will follow up the negotiations and if the government does not solve this, we will advance solutions in legislation."