Filing a Statement of Claim for Severance Pay, Wages, or Social and Other Employment Rights

• Only attorneys may submit the claim through the Net HaMishpat website.
• Before logging in, it is recommended to prepare all documents scanned in PDF format only. The total size of all files together must not exceed 30 MB.
• Access to the website must be made from a computer; it is not adapted for mobile browsing.
• Login must be performed using the National Identification button or a smart card.
• After logging in, ensure that you are identified as an attorney —on the upper left corner your attorney license number will appear, rather than your personal identification number.
  • If your identification number appears, you may change it by clicking the small arrow next to the number.
  • If the arrow does not appear and it is not possible to select your attorney license number, you are likely not registered as an attorney in the Net HaMishpat database.
  • To register to the database, complete the online registration form by entering the Net HaMishpat website and clicking the link on the lower center of the page — “Add a New Attorney to the Net HaMishpat Website.”
• To submit the claim and open a case:
  • Click the “Open Case” button.
  • Select the fields for the court, case type, and others.
  • When opening a case requiring payment of a court fee, enter in the “Claim Amount” field only the sum of all claim components subject to a court fee under the Regulations. In this manner the system will calculate the required fee correctly.
  • Mark V in the power of attorney field.
• If you wish to pay by bank account debit authorization instead of by credit card, this must be selected already at the stage of marking V for the power of attorney; otherwise, it will not be possible to select it later. To choose this option:

1. Click the “Attorney Details” button.
2. Go to the “Bank Account” tab and verify the account details for payment:

• Enter the bank account details and click the “Verify Data” button.
• The bank account details must match the account details registered in Net HaMishpat for the firm.
• If the account details do not match, they must be updated in Net HaMishpat — Updating Attorney Details in Net HaMishpat and Crediting a Bank Account.

• To submit appendices along with the claim:

Additional documents may be uploaded through the designated “Browse” button under the heading “Attach Accompanying Documents.”

• The claim may be submitted at any public service desk of the Regional Labor Court Secretariat, as explained at the beginning of this section.
• Online appointment scheduling for the Court Secretariat — it is possible to schedule an appointment at the public service desk of some Court Secretariats via the GoVisit website.

The claim may be sent via registered mail to the Regional Labor Court, as detailed in the previous section – arriving in person to the court.

• Court fee:
  • A court fee must be paid, as detailed in the Payment for the Service section on this page.
  • The receipt must be attached to the claim.

• To submit appendices with the claim:

The claim and the appendices must be attached and sent together.

It is not possible to submit the claim by fax.

Upon completion of submission, a confirmation number (reference number) will be received, enabling tracking of the opening of the case and obtaining the case number, in two ways:

1. In the Attorneys’ Area:

• Under the “Tracking My Submissions” tab, recent submissions, their confirmation numbers, and their processing status may be viewed.
• The status of processing of the application must be checked.
• This may be done after the end of the business day following submission.

2. On the top menu bar under the “Submissions” tab

• Clicking the tab will open a window in which you should select “Find Submissions by Reference Number.”
• Enter the confirmation number (reference number) in the designated field and click “Find” at the bottom left of the page. The processing status will be displayed.
• The status must be checked after the end of the business day following submission.
• After the file is opened, the case number will appear.
• Using the case number, the case may be viewed by clicking the number.
• After entering the case, the folders within it will appear on the right side.

• Upon completion of submission, a case number will be received. A judicial ruling in the case must then be awaited.
• It is possible to check whether a judicial ruling has been rendered via the Net HaMishpat website, accessed through the National Identification System or via a smart card. On the top menu bar, enter the case number, click “Find,” and the case may be viewed.
• If the case number is forgotten or unknown, click “Find Cases,” select “My Cases,” enter a date range, and a list of cases will appear, from which the correct case may be selected.
• After entering the case, folders will appear on the right side. Enter the “Paper File” folder, which contains all documents in the case, including judicial rulings.

• It is required to track the arrival of the mail to the Labor Court and wait until the end of the business day following its arrival for the case to be opened. Thereafter, progress may be tracked through Net HaMishpat as follows:
• Claimants not represented by an attorney:
  • If an email address has been updated in the application, update notifications will be received from the Labor Court there.
  • To read the notifications, clicking the link in them, will lead to Net HaMishpat. Login must be via the National Identification System. Next to the identification number an envelope icon will appear; clicking it opens notifications from the Labor Court. In this manner, the Labor Court will notify when the case is opened and will send the case number.
  • Another way to check whether the case has been opened on the Net HaMishpat website, after logging in via the National Identification System. Click the “Find Cases” button and select “My Cases.” Select a date range for the search. A list will appear from which the relevant case may be selected, and then click the case number to view it and check whether a judicial ruling has been rendered.
• Attorney:
  • An attorney may check the status of processing of the case through Net HaMishpat “Find Cases” and selecting “My Cases" tab.
  • The relevant Labor Court and opening date range must be selected.
  • If the case has been opened, a case number will appear, and the attorney may click the number to enter the file.
  • It is important to ensure that the attorney license number appears on the upper-left corner of the website, rather than the identification number, to view cases in which the attorney is the representative.