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One of the rights granted to insured employees in the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Code No. 5510, which is the basic law of Turkish Social Insurance Law, is “temporary incapacity allowance”. Incapacity for work is the name given to the temporary inability of an insured employee to work during a period of rest,...

In Turkiye, foreign nationals are subject to permission to work in the country legally. The main legislative text on this subject is the International Labour Code No. 6735 dated 28.07.2016. According to the provisions of the International Labour Code No. 6735, employers who will employ foreigners to work in Turkey are required to obtain a...

In Turkiye, foreign nationals are subject to permission to work within the country legally. The main legislative text on this subject is the International Labour Code No. 6735 dated 28.07.2016. According to the provisions of the International Labour Code No. 6735, employers who will employ foreigners to work in Turkey are required to obtain a...

The Labour Code No. 4857, the primary legislation of Turkish Labour Law, alongside regulating several provisions for the protection of the employee, also contains provisions prohibiting employers from discriminating among their employees. In accordance with the Article 5 of the Labour Code No. 4857, discrimination based on language, race, color, gender, disability, political opinion, philosophical...

The obligation of employers to employ disabled personnel in their workplaces is regulated in the Article 30 of the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, which is the primer law of Turkish Labour Law. Accordingly, employers are obliged to employ three percent disabled people in private sector workplaces where they employ fifty or more workers. Employers...

The obligation of employers to employ disabled and ex-convict personnel in their workplaces is regulated in the Article 30 of the Labour Code No. 4857, which is the basic law of Turkish Labor Law. Accordingly, employers who are within the scope of the Act No. 4857 are obliged to employ three percent disabled people in...

Regulations regarding health and safety measures in workplaces in Türkiye are regulated in the Occupational Health and Safety Code No. 6331. The law in question determines the measures that employers must take to ensure the health and safety of the people they employ, and also explains the rights and obligations of workers in terms of...

In general, a “release letter” refers to “exculpatory document” or “exoneration document” that proves that a debt has been eliminated and the debted is being acquitted. In the sense of the Turkish Labour Law, the release letter (or the letter of discharge/ acquittal) indicates that the employee has received all kinds of receivables from the...

According to the Turkish Income Tax Code No. 193, the income of real persons is subject to income tax. Income elements subject to income tax consists of (i) commercial income, (ii) agricultural income, (iii) wages, (iv) self-employment income, (v) real estate capital income, (vi) movable capital income and (vii) other earnings and incomes. Wages are ...

According to the Turkish Income Tax Code No. 193, the income of real persons is subject to income tax. Income elements subject to income tax, consists of commercial income, agricultural income, wages, self-employment income, real estate capital income, movable capital income and other earnings and incomes. Wages are benefits provided by money and allowances (given...