"RAFAEL timely
failed to reduce the number of employees, as scheduled within its recovery
plan, because of legal agreements and other constraints due to Civil Service
regulations that require adequate litigation procedure before a
dismissal of an employee. The head of RAFAEL explained to the auditors
that the number of employees had been reduced "in spite of the impossible
conditions for dismissal of civil servants" and after the Ministry
of Defense rejected a legal opinion on behalf of RAFAEL, concerning the
immediate reduction of staff by non conventional means."
"The auditor
emphasized that (the Israeli) Ministry of Defense rejected RAFAEL's proposition
which was presented only after the non conventional process had been already
invoked. This rejection was legally founded. It would have
been appropriate if RAFAEL and the Ministry of Defense had predicted the
inevitable difficulties at the time of planning, and before the unilateral
approval as made by RAFAEL."
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