Business in Turkey

As the new year is approaching finance departments of many companies are very busy with the hard task of preparing the next year’s annual budget which will be a guideline for the future spending and activities of the company.   What makes the upcoming year special is the %30 rise …

After the 3 December has been proclaimed as “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” in 1992, “The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol” which is signed and ratified by Turkey, was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations. Purpose of the Convention …

Turkey is a party to many international agreements and conventions, some of which have precedence over domestic laws, aimed at struggling against discrimination between people as regard to religion, sect, race, color, age or sex, and such grounds. Firstly, Article 10 of Constitution sets forth the general framework of “Equality …

United Nation has proclaimed 3 December as “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” in 1992 to create awareness on the problems of disabled persons. In our recent write up that can be accessed in http://turkishlaborlaw.com/faq/343-is-it-obligatory-to-employ-disabled-personnel we mentioned briefly the obligation of employing disabled personnel in private sector establishments, and in following …

One of the common issues on the area of labor life is the accounting treatment of benefits in kind and other allowances that should be treated differently from the wages. Benefits in kind can simply be defined as payments in kind and subsidization by employer provided for employees’ personal or …

Although it is not an obligation in Turkey’s labor legislation most of the employer prefer to provide meal for the employees in various ways. Meal benefit is arranged in employment contracts and collective agreements. This benefit may be provided by;giving meals in the premises,paying in cash directly to employees,giving meal …

It is indisputably accepted by the authorities that breast milk provides the ideal nutrition and is essential for the babies until they reach at least one year of age. Governments and law-makers all over the world introduced some legal provisions to meet that requirement and to ensure the healthiness and …

Although breastfeeding break is one of the labor right provided to female employees, it should never be forgotten that direct aim of this break is to provide the babies with their most precious and natural nutrition daily in appropriate periods up to a certain age. Therefore the subject here is …

Nursing allowance (colloquially known as “milk money”) is a lump-sum payment made to nursing mother or to uninsured breastfeeding spouse of a male insurance holder to help them to feed their infants. Allowance, arranged in Article 16 of Social Insurance and Universal Health insurance Law No. 5510, shall be paid …

In Turkey legislation there are number of conditions for entitling to severance pay, and one of them is marriage for female employees, who have the right to terminate the employment contract due to marriage and request severance payment. Although Labor Law No.1475 has been abolished and replaced by Labor Law …