Client update |The validity of a general medical certificate issued to an employee who is in isolation under a National Health Order. | Adv. Tamar Golan - M. Firon & Co. Advocates -Israel's Leading Law Firm
Back To All News & Innovations
27.07.2020

Client update |The validity of a general medical certificate issued to an employee who is in isolation under a National Health Order. | Adv. Tamar Golan

  • Print

The Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), has issued its decision regarding the validity of a general medical certificate issued to an
employee who is in isolation under a National Health Order.

The HCJ has ruled that “statistical patients” who are in preventative isolation and are asymptomatic, do not suffer from an illness which prevents them from working, but rather are forcibly being prevented from performing their work by a government isolation order and not by illness, and therefore, the general medical certificate given in their regard does not amount to a “medical certificate” as defined in the Sickness Benefit Regulations and does not
entitle employees to sickness benefit under the Sickness Benefit Law, and is therefore invalidated.

Advocate Tamar Golan goes into the details of the decision and its implications.

For the full update (in Hebrew), please CLICK HERE

אנשים מושיטים ידיים למרכז

The Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), has issued its decision regarding the validity of a general medical certificate issued to an
employee who is in isolation under a National Health Order.

The HCJ has ruled that “statistical patients” who are in preventative isolation and are asymptomatic, do not suffer from an illness which prevents them from working, but rather are forcibly being prevented from performing their work by a government isolation order and not by illness, and therefore, the general medical certificate given in their regard does not amount to a “medical certificate” as defined in the Sickness Benefit Regulations and does not
entitle employees to sickness benefit under the Sickness Benefit Law, and is therefore invalidated.

Advocate Tamar Golan goes into the details of the decision and its implications.

For the full update (in Hebrew), please CLICK HERE

icons

15.05.2025

Our firm represented the first AI company to go public on TASE

READ MORE
icons

18.06.2025

Client update – Administrative law

READ MORE
icons

19.06.2025

A building permit was approved for Av-Gad for a construction project in western Holon

READ MORE
icons

18.06.2025

Client update – Labor Law

READ MORE
icons

25.06.2025

Our firm represents the petitioner in a petition against the Israel Land Authority concerning the marketing of land in Ganot

READ MORE
icons

02.06.2025

Client update – Class Actions

READ MORE
icons

09.06.2025

“Public, Participation and Land: Urban Planning for the Arab Population in Israel” – a new book by Dr. Kais Nasser

READ MORE
icons

27.05.2025

A lawsuit against Meta in the Tel Aviv District Court, alleging that the company enables the promotion of pirated content services on Facebook and Instagram

READ MORE
icons

15.05.2025

The AI revolution requires a fundamental shift in the concept of privacy

READ MORE
icons

15.05.2025

Client update – Commercial dep

READ MORE
icons

06.05.2025

The annulment of the judgment prevented the liquidation of the airline from Georgia

READ MORE
icons

05.05.2025

The Kisu Group is selling 50% of its holdings in the restaurants to a group of senior investors

READ MORE