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The Social Insurance Premium Incentive No. 06111, is one of the most important social insurance premium incentives applied in Turkey. The incentive has started to be implemented in the year 2011 in order to increase the participation and employment of women, youth and people with vocational training in the workforce, to encourage the creation of...

The Social Insurance Premium Incentive of the Act No. 6111, is one of the most important social insurance premium incentives applied in Turkey. The incentive has started to be implemented in the year 2011 in order to increase the participation and employment of women, youth and people with vocational training in the workforce, to encourage...

Social insurance for children working for various reasons in-line with the regulations of the Turkish Labour Code, is being regulated in the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510. Accordingly, work accident, occupational disease and sickness insurance branches are applied to candidate apprentices, apprentices and students receiving vocational training in enterprises. On the...

The Labour Code No. 4857, which is the basic law of Turkish Labour Law, allowed individuals who have not reached the age of 18 (who have the status of ‘children’ according to the Turkish Civil Code) to be employed and work in certain cases and with certain special conditions. In this regard, according to the...

In cases where the weekly working hours a workplace are temporarily reduced by at least one third due to general economic, sectoral or regional crisis, or force majeure, or if the activity at the workplace is stopped completely or partially for at least four weeks without requiring continuity, income support will be provided to the...

According to the provisions of the International Labor Code No. 6735, employers who will employ foreigners to work in Turkey are required to obtain a work permit before the foreigner starts working. Work permit is a type of permit issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security as an official document and gives the...

Vocational training courses; are courses organized by the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) in order to help those who do not have a profession acquire a profession and to increase the employability of those who have a profession but want to improve their professional skills.   Conditions for Benefiting from Vocational Training Courses In order to...

In the Turkish Social Insurance Law, some special rights in the form of positive discrimination have been introduced to working mothers who have severely disabled children who need someone else’s care. One of these rights is the ability to earn extra social insurance service days in return for their work and retire early. This regulation...

The Regulation on Amendments to the Regulation on Business Lines entered into force after being published in the Turkish Official Gazette dated 23rd of January, 2024 and numbered 32438. The Article 4 of the Regulation on Business Lines has been amended with the relevant Regulation. In this context, upon the application of the employer, employers’...

A special arrangement is existing in the Turkish Social Security Law for women who are doign handicrafts at home. These women are included to the social insurance scope with special legal arragements.   Who are within the scope of the insurance conditions for women doing handicrafts at home? Except for sewing, embroidery, food processor, iron...