(b) In this section, "policeman" – including an extraordinary police officer."
- This provision is based on the special role of the police and the hierarchical organizational structure that derives from it. According to this provision, certain grounds, which relate mainly to the internal organization of the police's manpower, and which are significantly influenced by the hierarchical structure of the police, do not constitute grounds for employment relations for the purposes of the Labor Court's jurisdiction. Thus it is stated in the explanatory notes to this provision (Hatzim, 973, 5732, 108):
"... The proposed laws are intended to determine that the status of a police officer or prison guard is not the same as that of another salaried employee for judicial purposes under the Labor Court Law. The ways in which a person is employed as a police officer or as a prison guard, the conditions of his enlistment in the service, his personal liability to the public, the direct responsibility he bears towards the public and the law, the many other powers granted to him upon his enlistment, his special conditions of service, the discipline that binds him and the severe disciplinary punishment, the methods of discharge and dismissal from service – all of these are completely different from what is customary in the field of labor relations. Whether the employer is private or public.
Due to the special nature of the positions of the police and the prison service in society, and due to the great responsibility associated with the position of a police officer or prison guard, the methods of recruitment of a police officer or prison guard, his duties, powers, and significance are determined by a special law, as distinct from the rest of the civil servants; The Civil Service Law (Appointments), 5719-1959, the Civil Service (Discipline) Law, 5723-1963, and the Employment Service Law, 5719-1959 – do not apply to it. Yes, his terms of service are different; The Hours of Work and Rest Law, 5711-1951, does not apply to it, while other laws such as the Severance Pay Law, 5723-1963, and the Civil Service Law (Pensions) [Consolidated Version], 5730-1970, set out special arrangements for it.