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PART TWO: CONCILIATION
Delivery of notices of labour dispute.
5. Any party to a labour dispute may give notice of the dispute to the Chief Officer; the contents, form and mode of delivery of the notice shall be prescribed by the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs by regulations.
Duty to give notice of strike or lockout.
5A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5, a party to a dispute is bound to give the other party and the Chief Officer notice as specified in that section of every strike or lockout, as the case may be, at least fifteen days before the beginning thereof.

“PART FOUR: COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE
Definitions.
37A. For the purposes of this chapter –
“”Collective agreement”” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Collective Agreements Law, 5717-
1957, whether or not the agreement is made and submitted for registration under that Law, and include
any other collective arrangement, provided that the agreement or arrangement is made in writing and prescribes rates of wages;;
“”public service”” means any of the following services;
(1) the State Service, including the Defence Establishment and every undertaking or institution established by Law, whether or not the State Service (appointments) Law, 5719-1959, applies to those employed therein;
(2) the local authority services;
(3) the health services, except any non-publicly-owned undertaking or institution operated for profit appearing in a list of undertakings and institutions as aforesaid drawn up by the Minister of Health with the approval of the Knesset Labour and Social Affairs Committee and published in Reshumot;
(4) compulsory education, within the meaning of the Compulsory Education Law, 5709-1949;
(5) post compulsory – including vocational and agricultural – secondary education, except any non-publicly-owned institution operated for profit appearing in a list of institutions aforesaid drawn up by the Minister of Education and Culture with the approval of the Knesset Labour and Social Affairs Committee and published in Reshumot.
(6) institutions of higher education recognised under the Council for Higher Education Law, 5718-1958;
(7) other institutions for post-secondary studies, except a non-publicly-owned institution operated for profit appearing in a list drawn up by the Minister of Education and Culture with the approval of the Knesset Labour and Social Affairs Committee and published in Reshumot.
(8) air transport;
(9) the production and manufacture of fuel and the conveyance of fuel by pipes;
(10) the production and supply for water;
(11) the generation and supply of electricity;
(12) the operation of a telecommunication installation and the provision of a telecommunication service by the holder of a general licence under the Telecommunications Law 5742-1982 and by the holder of another licence which is included in a list compiled by the Minister of Telecommunications, with the approval of the Knesset Labour Committee and published in Reshumot, as well as the provision of broadcasting services under the Second Television and Radio Broadcasting Authority Law 5750-1990.
“”authorised employees’ organisation”” –
(1) where a collective agreement applies – means the organisation which is a party to the agreement,
(2) where a collective agreement which had applied is no longer in force – means the
organisation which was a party to the agreement;
(3) where no collective agreement has ever applied – means the organisation to which the greatest number of organised employees in the public service in question belong;
(4) where an organisation as referred to in paragraph (1) and (3) is a part of a more
comprehensive employees’ organisation – means the more comprehensive organisation;
however, where an agreement exists made before the coming into force of this Law between an employees’ organisation and a more comprehensive employees’ organisation concerning the former’s accession to the more comprehensive organisation, and under the agreement the acceding organisation is empowered to declare or approve a strike, the acceding organisation shall be regarded as an authorised employees’ organisation to the extent that power to declare or
approve a strike is not vested by the agreement in the more comprehensive organisation; “”unprotected strike or lockout”” means any of the following:
(1) a strike or lockout of employees in a public service where a collective agreement applies, except a strike unconnected with wages or social conditions and declared or approved by the central national governing body of the authorised employees’ organisation;
(2) a strike by employees in a public service where collective agreement which had applied is no longer in force, but the strike has not been declared or approved by the agency or agencies authorised in that behalf and in proceedings prescribed therefore, all according to the rules of the authorised employees’ organisation; written confirmation by the central national governing body of the authorised employees’ organisation that a particular strike has been declared or authorised as aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of such fact;
(3) a strike or lockout in a public service of which no notice has been given in accordance with this Law; for the purposes of this definition, there shall be regarded as a strike –
(a) an organised total or partial work stoppage by a group of employees, including a
go-slow strike or some other organised disruption of the normal course of the work;
(b) organised refusal, resorted to by a group of employees as a step in a labour
dispute, to work overtime where the duty to work overtime is laid down by collective
agreement and such work is permitted under the Hours of Work and Rest Law, 5711-1951.”