Labor Courts of Israel

In the Israeli legal system, the Labor Courts system (Hebrew: בתי הדין לעבודה) is a system of courts established under the Law of the Labor Court, 1969. This court system is the appellate judiciary specializing in labor law and social security (National Insurance, Health Insurance etc.).

Structure

Labor courts exist in two instances:

The National Labor Court is considered the high authority in the field of labor law, and as such, is often excluded from the intervention of the Israeli Supreme Court. In some cases, however, the Israeli Supreme Court may agree to entertain an appeal. A legal dispute which existed between the then-President of the National Labor Court, Menahem Goldberg and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, the relations between the Labor Court to High Court. Goldberg and his predecessor Bar - Niv, ruled for the supremacy of the National Labor Court on the issues. Barak, however, allowed the petitions to the Supreme Court against a ruling by the National Labor Court.

List of National Labor Court Justices

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