Likud says no dice to Histadrut proposition: ‘Completely neuters’ the ‘reasonableness’ bill

23 July 2023, 3:49 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves his Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party comes out against the Histadrut’s proposal, claiming it amounts to a “unilateral acceptance” of the opposition’s stance.

“The proposal completely neuters the amendment on the issue of reasonableness and requires total concession on all the other elements of the reform,” the party says in a statement. “We are continuing to make every effort for a real compromise.”

The framework put forward by the Histadrut and a group of businesses calls for curtailing the scope of the “reasonableness” bill in its current form, and for an 18-month pause on advancing judicial legislation without broad agreement to allow for compromise talks.