By Ela Erozan Gursel Chineasy. The winner of the prestigious Wallpaper design award. Short listed nominee for Design Museum’s Design Awards 2014. Chineasy is a social project that aims to spread the Chinese language as an easy and fun language all over the globe. Regardless of your interest to learn …

‘Karagöz,’ a critical aspect of Turkey’s collective past, will be in the archive. The Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry is forming an archive of public culture with 172,435 documents including notes, gramophone records, photos, videos, ethnographic tool and Karagöz depictions. Scientific works that started in 1910 in the field of …

Calendar management could be one of the most challenging tasks for HR Managers. You could be the best in your field but you cannot deliver outstanding results and earn clients’ respect without impeccable scheduling assistance. Blogger of Fistful of Talent, Laurie Ruettimann, tells us the story of a great HR …

by Ela Erozan Gursel The year 2013 is coming to en end. How was the year for you? How did you feel about yourself? Accomplished or failed, happy or unhappy, hard working or lazy. Every year-end I like to look back and write down what I have done, what opportunities …

Strasbourg, 03.12.2013 – The Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014 has been awarded to the Baksi Museum in Bayburt (Turkey) by the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). This museum is an example of the personal vision of …

Some 74 percent of Turks believe a flexible working arrangement encourages a greater sense of responsibility and time management, shows a study. A majority of Turkish people believe flexible working is a critical measure to achieving higher productivity, finds the latest Regus survey. “This result confirms that in any economic …

In collaboration with Istanbul Bilgi University, Datassist will conduct a training programme in human resources and payroll at santralİstanbul on February 5-26th. The programme will last 34 hours with half and full day lectures. Please contact us for further information. The 26th Human Resources and Payroll Training programme of Datassist …

After new Labor Act no. 4857 came into force, all the articles of the former Labor Act no. 1475 were abolished. However, article 14 of Labor Act no. 1475, which regulates severance pay, is still valid. Although the creation of a severance pay fund is foreseen through a transitional article …

Shorter working time is defined as temporarily shortening of weekly working time in an establishment by the employer at least at the portion of 1/3 or at least four weeks or temporarily suspending work wholly or partially. Shorter working time shall not exceed in any case three months. In accordance …

Question “When I asked for an unpaid leave for August 12-16th, my employer said that the weekend following these work days (August 17th and 18th) would be deducted from my paycheck. We don’t normally work over the weekend. My employer says that because I won’t be working Monday through Friday, …