Business in Turkey

Conveyer belts will be standardized and establishing rescue station will be compulsory in underground mining workplaces, according to amendment on the related Regulation.   “Regulation on Occupational Health and Safety in Mining Establishments” intended to determine the minimum health and safety requirements for mining works in order to protect the workers’ …

Regulation on Processing and Ensuring the Privacy of Personal Data Relating to Health (Official Journal 29863, dated 26 October 2016) has been amended by a new regulation that has been issued in Official Journal 30250, dated 24 November.2017.  As is known provisions of “Law on The Protection of Personal Data, …

Professionals of the following occupational groups, depending upon their period of stay in Turkey, are not subject to a work permit. Foreigners arriving for the purpose of assembly, maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment and providing training on use of them , without exceeding three months Foreigners arriving for …

Every country has its own legislation as regard to international workforce; however provisions of social security agreements are applied instead of domestic legislation. POSTING/SECONDMENT/FOREIGNERS ASSIGNED TO TURKEY In general; without prejudice to provisions of international social security agreements, employees who are temporarily assigned to Turkey by and on behalf of …

WORK PERMIT APPLICATION ABROAD If you are a foreigner applying for work visa from abroad the steps and necessary documents are as follows. •             Before the consulate visit fill in the “Visa Application form” in web-site (www.konsolosluk.gov.tr) When you go to relevant consulate of Turkey to apply for work visa, take …

Turkey, on one hand, trying to attract qualified foreign professionals and investors to create an economy producing goods with high added value and increase the domestic savings, and on the other hand, struggling to cope up with the inflow of refugees in huge numbers from the troubled neighbors, has introduced …

Government support provided from Unemployment Fund for the employers of interns will continue during 2017-2018 school year. As is known apprentices, candidate apprentices and students in vocational high schools, and students having vocational and technical training in the universities or higher education institutions who are deemed in the scope of …

Period of limitation for annual leave wage, severance pay, notice pay, bad faith compensation and compensation for terminating employment contract against equal treatment principle will be 5 years, as per the “Law on Labor Courts No. 7036” issued in Official Gazette, numbered 30221, dated 25 October 2017.    Statute of …

Employees and employers shall resort to arbitrator in the first place instead of litigation process for their labor disputes and conflicts, as per the “Law on Labor Courts No. 7036” issued in Official Gazette numbered 30221, dated 25 October 2017. The also called “mandatory mediation” aims at lessening  the heavy …

Unemployment salary that is paid at the end of each month will be paid at the 5th day of the month in case the “Bag Law” gets into force in the following weeks.  Intending to prevent inappropriate payments Article 50 of Law on Unemployment Insurance No. 4447 will be changed …