Business in Turkey

You can be dismissed without receiving severance pay due to unexcused absence from work for certain periods.   Employees may miss some work days for various reasons that may be excused or unexcused. As absenteeism affects the productivity of a company, employer has the right to terminate the employment contract with …

Press members, unlike other workers who are in the scope of Law No. 4857, are subjected to Press Labor Law (Law on Sector Regulations between Press Employees and Employers) No. 5953, which includes different arrangements for the press member such as longer annual leave periods.

Foreign employees are already entitled to unemployment salary provided by İŞKUR (Turkish Employment Agency). Now with the new issued İŞKUR Circular 2017/1 foreigners who are satisfying some conditions will be benefiting from training programmes conducted by the Agency within the framework of active labor market policies. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS Unemployment benefit, …

The third circular has been issued on the support for employing registered unemployed of İŞKUR  (Turkish Employment Agency) and the scope of the support is widened. Circular 2017/10 (dated 1st March 2017) As we informed you before, private sector employers are refunded daily 22,22 TRY of total SSI premiums to …

As of 2023, unemployment rate will be reduced down to 5%, unregistered employment rate in non-agricultural sector will be under 15%, women’s employment participation rate will be increased to 41%, and child labor will be eliminated, according to government’s new “National Employment Strategy” published in the official gazette on 7th …

Paid annual leave is arranged between Articles 53 and 62 of Labor Law, No. 4857, and relevant procedures and principles are set out by the Regulation on Paid Annual Leave. Who Decides Who is Taking Vacation and When? For workplaces employing more than 100 employees it is obligatory to constitute …

Employees are allowed to take some days off on some occasions such as marriage, birth, death, adoption etc. Remuneration of these leaves shall be paid by employer, and such leaves shall be regarded as worked in computation of the length of service required to qualify for paid annual leave.

Turkish Labor Law contains many provisions creating positive discrimination (which is praiseworthy) for female employees, however until recently male workers had not got any parental leave. By the new arrangements came into effect in last two years, male employees whose spouse has given birth, or adopters of a child are …

Termination of employment contract, either by employee or by employer is subject to strict rules arranged in Labor Law. Especially the employer should be more careful and take the following points in the execution of termination. § Notice of termination must be in written, § The exact reason of termination …

“This article is published in “Dünya Executive,” the weekly English supplement of financial newspaper Dünya, on 31st May 2017. We have tried to shed light on the problems frequently encountered by the foreigners in our country.”   Being an expat is something like an adventure involving so many problems to …