Employer may request employees to work overtime not exceeding 270 hours per year provided that daily total working hours not exceeding 11 hours; however, employee’s consent is required for overtime work and works at extra hours.

Administrative fines to be applied by the Social Security Institution are increased in 2017 in parallel to minimum wage hike. Amounts of the fines for the violations specified article 102 of Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510 are as follows.

In case of bad weather and under some other circumstances that made working impossible, employer has the right to ask its employers to make up unworked hours at a later date. Also, the days unworked before and after holidays –especially the half-days before the Turkish religious holidays- may be considered …

Administrative fines to be applied according to Labor Law No. 4857 are increased in 2017 in parallel to minimum wage hike. Amounts of the fines for the violations specified article 98 to 107 are as follows.

International Workforce Law No. 6735, published in Official Gazette numbered 29800 dated 13 August 2016, has replaced the former Work Permit Law No 4817 and introduced many changes as regard to work permit regulations of foreigners as well as new amounts of administrative fines for illegal employment of foreigners and …

Private Pension System, which is complementary to the mandatory state social security scheme in Turkey has been introduced by Law No. 6740 and entered into force as of 1st January 2017.

  SSI premium support for private sector establishments, who employ trained candidates of training-on-the job programs carried out by Turkish Employment Organization (İŞKUR), has been extended to the end of the 2017.

Half-time working pay provided by Unemployment Insurance Fund for working mothers and adopters is increased in parallel with the rise in minimum wage of 2017. The net amount of daily half-time pay will be 58,80 TRY, and 882,00 TRY maxımum all thorough the year 2017.

We recently informed you that 2017 monthly gross minimum wage has been raised to 1.777,50 TRY with an about 9% wage hike, starting from 1st January 2016, while it was 1.647,00 TRY last year. In Turkey, minimum wage is a key determinant of many payroll parameters and employers’ labor cost.

PAYROLL PARAMETERS 2018 APPLICATION NAMES  TRY     DAILY MINIMUM GROSS SALARYMONTHLY MINIMUM GROSS SALARY 67,65 MONTHLY MINIMUM GROSS SALARY 2.029,50     NET MINIMUM WAGE (MLA İNCLUDED) 1.603,12 NET MINIMUM WAGE (WITHOUT MLA) 1.450,91     DAILY SSI PREMIUM EARNINGS BASE/Minimum LIMIT 67,65 DAILY SSI PREMIUM EARNINGS BASE/Maximum LIMIT …