In the Israeli legal system system, the Labour Courts system is a system of courts established under the Law of the Labour Court, 1969. This court system is the appellate judiciary specializing in labor law and social security (National Insurance , Health Insurance etc.).

Structure

Labor courts exist in two instances:

• Regional Court: There are five regional courts to work in their jurisdictions parallel jurisdictions of the District Courts.
• National Court: an appellate appeals from judgments of regional courts. Certain issues, the national court is first instance.

In labor law, the National Labor Court is the Supreme Court and can appeal the rulings. However, one can appeal to the High Court against a ruling by the National Labor Court. A legal dispute which existed between the then-President of the National Labor Court, Menahem Goldberg and the chief justice of the High Court

Supreme Court of Israel

The Supreme Court is at the head of the court system and highest judicial instance in Israel. The Supreme Court sits in Jerusalem.The area of its jurisdiction is all of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. A ruling of the Supreme Court is binding upon every court, other than the Supreme...

, Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak is a Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law....

, the relations between the Labour Court to High Court. Goldberg and his predecessor Bar - Niv, ruled for the supremacy of the National Labor Court on the issues. Barak, however, allowed the petitions to the High Court against a ruling by the National Labor Court.

List of National Labor Court Justices

• Zvi Bar-Niv - 1969 - 1986
• Menachem Goldberg - 1986 - 1997
• Steve Adler - 1997 - 2010
• Nili Arad - 2010 - present