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Employment relation between employer and employee is established for a certain type of job expected from employees, however the requirements of a company may change in the course of time and employers want some of their personnel to work in different type of jobs or positions. The change on the …

Changing an employee’s workplace location is a highly controversial issue in the implementation of Labor Law. Main issues related to matter are whether; Employees are obliged to accept the change?   Or can terminate their employment contract for just cause? Employer can dismiss the employee who doesn’t accept the change? …

What is Unemployment Benefit? Unemployment benefit, also called “Jobseekers Allowance” or “Dole,” is an allowance granted to insured employees who lost their jobs against their will.  In Turkey, it is simply referred as “unemployment salary” and paid to eligible workers in the scope of mandatory unemployment insurance in line with …

In 2016 working mothers are offered new choices to work half time and/or part time up to some periods of time after birth in addition to existing post-natal leave entitlements, namely 8 weeks maternity leave and 6 months unpaid leave. This newly introduced arrangement caused some confusion about the sequencing …

Employer who employs unregistered workers will not be devoid of premium incentives more than one month, and old fines will be pardoned, according to omnibus bill pass through the Parliament. In current practice employers who, in the investigations and inspections performed by the officers authorized with audits and checks, are …

Qualified employee shall be paid a severance pay equal to last 30 days’ gross wages for each full year of employment. For a portion of a year, pro rata payment should be made.   In calculation of the last 30 days’ wage, the wage paid and the some contractual and …

Amount of minimum wage support will be monthly 99,99 TRY during the 2017, the same amount applied in 2016, however the minimum daily earnings to be taken as base in the application of support will be 110,00/monthly 3.330,00 TRY, instead of daily 85,00/monthly 2.550,00 TRY. Employers will be receiving daily …

Starting from 1st January 2018 withholding tax returns and SSI e-declarations will be combined in a single form under the name of “Withholding Tax and Monthly Premium Service Document” and submitted only to the tax offices until the 23rd of the following month. Law No. 6740 had already stipulated that …

Turkish government, has taken some steps to prevent unemployment by providing SSI premium and tax support for the private sector employers in 2017. We will try to briefly explain these arrangements in three questions; also detailed information can be found in the links provided at the end of every article. …

Number of working days within a month is considered 30, regardless of the actual number of days the month includes. In other words workdays of January (31 days), February (28 or 29 days) or March (30 days) is the same.   Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law Number 5510, Article …