Unpaid leaves are not clearly defined and arranged in Turkish legislation. An employee may sometimes be in need of taking a day or two off for various and quite understandable reasons, such as sickness of family members, and for other innumerable cases require employee to attend outside of workplace within …

Datassist, Turkey’s leading payroll company introduces “Turkey Fact Sheet, A Guideline for Foreign Employers” prepared to provide “must to know facts” about labor law and legislation as well as basics of payroll. As a foreign employee or an executive doing business in Turkey, it goes without saying that you have …

If you are a private sector employee the answer is unfortunately NO! However, by mutual consent between employer and employee, taking time off from work without pay for various excuses, especially for sick children, is always possible in practice. Another way to attend or take the child for medical examination, …

A divorced spouse who is paying alimony will benefit from the Minimum Living Allowance for children, regardless of whether the alimony receiving spouse is working or not. In general, MLA is applied only to one of the spouses for children, however in case of divorcement, and paying or receiving alimony …

Workplaces, depending on their number of personnel, may be under the obligation of providing lactation rooms and child-care units. Turkish Labor Law and various regulations contain many provisions concerning working women and mothers. You will find the detailed information in the links at the end of the article; our today’s …

When the wage of employees is not paid in time for whatever reason by the employer, the conflict is usually settled by the courts. In this article we will take the subject as a case study, but first let’s have a look at the provisions of the related legislation. What …

Employee who terminated the employment contract for reason of being obliged to excessive over-time work (exceeding 270 hours a year) will be entitled to severance pay, according to Supreme Court ruling. As a result of this, employee who is forced to work over 270 hours a year, and/or against his …

An employee whose fixed-term employment contract is terminated by the employer may be entitled to severance pay depending on the conditions, according to Supreme Court ruling. However, there will not be notice payment for termination of such contracts.  LABOR LAW PROVISIONS Employment Contracts Although there are several types of employment …

Turkey, in an effort to improve the economic integration to global economy has undergone many changes in its legislation during the last decades.  The modifications covers the many aspects of inflow and outflow of  international labor force such as work permits, posting abroad, legal position and social security obligations of …

We have informed you that one year incentive-deprivation period of employers, who are found not notified the employed personnel as insured, or the notified insured is not working virtually (insured falsely), is shortened to one month according to additional article14 of Law No. 5510 which is added by article 17 …