Exhibit B
General Approval Regarding Employers’ Contributions to Pension Fund and Insurance Fund in lieu of Severance Pay
(30/6/1998)
The following is a combined version of the general approval of June 9, 1998 as published in the official announcement gazette 4659 on June 30, 1998, as amended on August 23, 1999 and published in the official announcement gazette 4803 on September 19, 1999, and as amended and published in the official announcement gazette 4970 on March 12, 2001:
By virtue of my power under Section 14 of the Severance Pay Law, 5723-19631 (the “Law”), I hereby confirm, that contributions made by an employer for his employee, commencing as of the date of publication of this approval, to a comprehensive pension in a provident fund for annuity that is not an insurance fund within the meaning of such term in the Income Tax Regulations (Rules for the Approval and Management of Provident Funds), 5724-19642 (a “Pension Fund”) or to a managers’ insurance that includes the possibility of an annuity or a combination of payments to an annuity plan and to a non-annuity plan within such insurance fund (an “Insurance Fund”), including combined contributions made by the employer to a Pension Fund and to an Insurance Fund, whether or not the Insurance Fund includes an annuity plan (the “Employer’s Contributions”), shall be payable in lieu of severance pay due to such employee in respect of the salary from which such contributions were made and the period they were made for (the “Exempt Salary”); provided, however, that all of the following conditions have been fulfilled:
(1) The Employer’s Contributions -
(a) To the Pension Fund, are at a rate of no less than 14 1/3% of the Exempt Salary, or 12% of the Exempt Salary, if in addition thereto, the employer makes supplementary severance pay contributions for his employee to a provident fund for severance pay or to an Insurance Fund in the employee's name, at a rate of 2 1/3% of the Exempt Salary. In the event that the employer has not contributed such 2 1/3% in addition to said 12%, his contributions shall only replace 72% of the employee's severance pay;
(b) To the Insurance Fund are at a rate of no less than one of the following:
(1) 13 1/3% of the Exempt Salary, if in addition thereto, the employer makes contributions for his employee for securing monthly income in the event of disability to a plan approved by the Commissioner of the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings at the Ministry of Finance, at the rate required to secure at least 75% of the Exempt Salary or a rate of 2 1/2% of the Exempt Salary, whichever is lower (“Disability Insurance Contributions”); or
(2) 11% of the Exempt Salary, if the employer also made Disability Insurance Contributions, and in such case the Employer's Contributions shall only replace 72% of the Employee's severance pay; In the event that the employer has made, in addition to the foregoing, supplementary severance pay contributions to a provident fund for severance pay or to an Insurance Fund in the employee's name at a rate of 2 1/3% of the Exempt Salary, the Employer's Contributions shall replace 100% of the employee's severance pay.
(2) By no later than three months of the commencement date of the Employer's Contributions, a written agreement is executed between the employer and the employee that includes:
(a) The employee’s consent to the arrangement pursuant to this approval in a form specifying the Employer's Contributions, and the Pension Fund and Insurance Fund, as applicable; such agreement shall also include the form of this approval;
(b) The employer’s advance waiver of any right he may have to a refund of monies from his contributions, unless the employee’s right to severance pay has been revoked by virtue of Sections 16 or 17 of the Law, and to the extent so revoked, or the employee has withdrawn monies from the Pension Fund or Insurance Fund other than by reason of an Entitling Event; in such regard “Entitling Event” means death, disability or retirement at or after the age of 60 or more.
(3) This approval shall not derogate from the employee's right to severance pay under any law, collective agreement, expansion order or employment contract, in respect of salary over and above the Exempt Salary.
| Eliyahu Yishai |
| Minister of Labor and Social Affairs |
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/s/ Hagai Gold | /s/Eldad Maniv |
Company | Employee |
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| Date: 31/8/2012 |