ABSTRACT
Unlike other countries, having a permanent contract in Israel does not refer to a legal status. Instead, contract permanency is an important clause of the collective contract between employers and unions. Framed like this, the number of employees employed on permanent contract severely decreased over the last decades. Contract permanency in its relation to choice and motives is an important topic in Israeli research, even to the extent that the traditional distinction between voluntary and involuntary temporaries is challenged and elaborated on in different ways. A non-empirical article written by an Israeli labor law specialist can be interpreted as indirectly dealing with this association between the formal and psychological employment contract. An important area of Israeli research focuses on resistance to change. Generally, permanents are more resistant to change compared to temporaries, regardless of the specific contract type of those temporaries and regardless of the specific measure used.
