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Can severance pay be paid in installments?

Can severance pay be paid in installments?

Resul Kurt This is a really sensitive issue. On one hand, there are employers imprisoned because they could not pay their checks and on the other, there are employees whose greatest subsistence assuranceis their labor. Generally, the severance pay should be paid on the day the employment contract is terminated. …

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Who Shall Benefit From Job Guarantee?

Who Shall Benefit From Job Guarantee?

İbrahim Işıklı Labor Law no 4857 article 18 states that “termination of contract of an employee engaged for an indefinite period, who is employed in an establishment with thirty or more employees and who meets a minimum seniority of six months, must depend on a valid reason for such termination …

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Employment package for 500.000 unemployed goes into effect

Employment package for 500.000 unemployed goes into effect

Government’s employment package to hire half a million of unemployed persons for public works like painting, whitewashing and cleaning roads went into effect in Giresun and Bitlis. The project that was developed in Faruk  Çelik was the Ministry of Labor to create employment opportunities for 500 thousand people is finally …

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Retirement of the optional insurance holder

Retirement of the optional insurance holder

In law no 5510, optional insurance is defined as “the insurance which allows the individuals to be subject to long term insurance branches and universal health insurance by paying optional premiums”. As of 01.10.2008, the conditions below apply in order to be optional insurance holder: 1.    Residency in Turkey, 2.   …

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Employers Can Buy Occupational Health and Safety Services

Employers Can Buy Occupational Health and Safety Services

Arif Temir- Labor Investigator/Ministry of Labor and Social Security Clauses of Labor Law no 4857 require that in workplaces where a minimum of fifty employees are employed, employers are under the obligation to take occupational health and safety measures and to provide first aid, urgent treatment and preventive health services …

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