Bezeq The Israel Telecommunication Corp. Ltd. announced that notice was received at the company's offices of a strike or lockout, in accordance with the Settlement of Labor Disputes Law, 1957 ("the Notice"), issued and approved by the Histadrut (New General Federation of Workers), as of February 5, 2019. The matters in dispute, according to what is stated in the Notice, are as follows: 1. The employees' representatives demand that there should be negotiations with them concerning the transfer of control, and the need to sign a collective agreement to protect employees' rights. 2. The unilateral decision to allow subcontractors to operate the company's switching equipment and to carry out actions that until now were exclusively carried out by the company's employees (according to the clarification received after the Notice had been sent, it was referring to the decision of the Ministry of Communications that facilitated work by employees of competitors' subcontractors on the company's infrastructure).