Payslips for a foreign caregiver: required or not, and what we recommend

Many families who employ a foreign caregiver ask us: must I issue a payslip every month? I am not a business.

This is an important question, and the answer is in the Wage Protection Law.

The duty to keep a wage book and to issue a payslip applies to employers in a business or an occupation. Employing a caregiver in the patient's home, by the patient or by a family member as a private person, and not as a business, is exempt.

A nursing patient who employs a foreign caregiver at home is not required by the Wage Protection Law to issue a payslip.

Our recommendation, Yad Harutzim: even with that exemption, we recommend that every family issue an orderly payslip each month. It shows what was paid, it is the best evidence of payment on time together with the bank transfer, it is the basis for the final settlement, and it shows the caregiver what was received, what was deducted, and what was paid for rest days and holidays.

• The employer's name and the caregiver's name.
• The month of work and the date of payment.
• The basic wage.
• A separate addition for work on the weekly rest day and on a holiday.
• Only the permitted deductions.
• The total paid, and a note that payment was by bank transfer.

Wage Protection Law, 1958, section 24(d): "The provisions of this section shall not apply to an individual regarding an employee whom that individual employs other than in the framework of a business or occupation."