Elbashan Commission recommends growing severance pay for ex-deputies

The Public Commission on Salaries of Knesset Deputies, chaired by using Professor Elbashan, submitted a recommendation to the Commission for Knesset Affairs to boom the severance pay for deputies who did now not get into the Knesset following the elections.

In particular, the fee endorsed, towards the backdrop of a chain of snap elections that have taken location in latest years, to pay severance pay to deputies who have served within the Knesset for less than a year.

The best exception that doesn't provide the proper to severance pay can be a term inside the Knesset that started less than 3 months earlier than the election.

According to the recommendation, the severance pay can be calculated from the first month of the term, and now not from the second one year. So, a deputy who has worked for 8 months will be entitled to a severance pay in the amount of two-thirds of the salary, a deputy who has labored for a yr and a half can be entitled to a severance pay in the quantity of one and a 1/2 salaries, and no longer half of the earnings, a deputy who has finished a complete cadence can have the right for a severance pay of four salaries, and now not 3 salaries, as it's far now.

The commission also endorsed a whole ban on spending the parliamentary price range on public relations for purchases from individuals of the circle of relatives of a deputy and members of the households of parliamentary assistants.

The chairman of the Knesset Affairs Committee, Deputy Ofir Katz (Likud), is presently refusing to simply accept the recommendation for consideration, calling it unworthy towards the backdrop of an boom in the price of living.