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Practice 06

Employment & Corporate Immigration

An international employer takes on Israeli obligations from its first hire in Israel, and often needs to bring people in from abroad as well. We act on both sides of that — the terms of employment and the permits the work requires — for the employer.

How we work on these matters

This is corporate work rather than a personal immigration service. Our client is normally the employer: a foreign company opening an Israeli operation, an Israeli subsidiary of an international group, or a business that needs a particular executive or specialist on the ground in Israel.

The employment side begins with the documents. Israeli employment terms are not the group's standard contract translated, and an agreement that was not written for Israel tends to be discovered at exactly the point where it matters. We draft the agreements, review the policies behind them, and set out what being an employer in Israel obliges the company to do.

The immigration side runs in parallel and on the authorities' timetable rather than ours. We prepare the employer's application, conduct the dealings with the Population and Immigration Authority, and coordinate the move with the family's arrangements and with the company's advisers abroad. What is granted, and when, is for the authority to decide.

What this practice covers

  • Israeli employment agreements

    Contracts written for employment in Israel, rather than adapted from a group template drafted elsewhere.

  • Employment compliance

    What an employer in Israel is required to put in place and keep on record, and how those obligations are checked.

  • Employment of executives and specialists

    Engagement terms for senior and specialist staff, including confidentiality, restrictive covenants and incentive arrangements.

  • Foreign expert work permits

    Preparing the employer's application to bring in a foreign specialist, and the documentation that has to support it.

  • Corporate immigration

    The employer's side of moving people into Israel: who may be brought in, on what basis, and what the company undertakes.

  • Executive relocation

    The legal arrangements around a senior move to Israel, including the employment terms it runs on and the family that comes with it.

  • Representation before the Population and Immigration Authority

    Conducting the company's dealings with the Authority, in Hebrew, and answering in full what it asks.

  • Employment disputes

    Claims brought by or against an employer, handled first in correspondence and then, where necessary, before the Israeli labour courts.

  • Termination and employee rights

    Bringing an employment relationship to an end correctly, and dealing with the entitlements that arise when it ends.

  • Legal support for international employers

    Continuing counsel for a company whose Israeli workforce is one part of a group employing people in several countries.

Doing Business in Israel

Because the first Israeli hire usually arrives with the Israeli entity, and the two are set up together.

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Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Where an employment claim leaves correspondence and has to be conducted as a case.

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Private Clients & Global Mobility

Because the executive being relocated has a family, assets and affairs elsewhere to move as well.

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Discuss Your Business or Legal Matter in Israel

Tell us what you are dealing with and where it stands. We will tell you what it involves in Israel and who at the firm will handle it.

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