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Workplace is the places where the insured do their work together with its material and non-material elements. Places connected to the workplace, which are affiliated with the goods produced or services provided in the workplace and which are organized under the same management and organisation, and the other relevant attachments allocated for doings such as...

Workplace is the places where the insured do their work together with its material and non-material elements. Places connected to the workplace, which are affiliated with the goods produced or services provided in the workplace and which are organized under the same management and organisation, and the other relevant attachments allocated for doings such as...

Severance pay is one of the rights provided to employees by the Turkish Labour Code. In case that an employee has at least one full year seniority in the workplace or workplaces of the same employer he/she would be entitled to severance pay, within the condition of exit code declared to the Social Security Institution...

Since 2012 Republic of Turkey is implementing a compulsory healthcare insurance for all the population nationwide, which is called the General Health Insurance. The General Health Insurance is the social insurance system that primarily protect the health of people living in Turkey and that finances the expenditures incurred in case they encounter with health risks....

The Turkish Social Security regime is a classical-type Bismarckian social insurance model. Within the system among those employees and those who are within the working life, the ones specified in the legislation are being considered as social insured. The Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Act No. 5510, as the main legislation of the country...

Temporar incapacity allowance is one of the social insurance benefits provided for employees within the Turkish Social Insurance System. The term “Temporary incapacity for work” refers to the temporary inability of the insured to work during the medical rest period specified in the reports of the physician or health board authorized by the Social Security...

In terms of social security and labour life dynamics, unregistred employment can be defined as the non-reporting or incomplete reporting to the relevant public institutions and organizations of the work of the persons who are involved in employment by working in legal jobs, in terms of days or wages. According to this definition, there are three...

Control and financement of the pension system in Turkey is being carried out by the Social Security Institution which is a relevant institution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Two fundamental pension reforms were made in Turkey in 1999 and 2008, and each reform changed the method of calculating pensions. As a general...

According to the Turkish Social Insurance System, one of the main obligations of employers is the obligation to submit an insured employment statement regarding the people they employ. For those deemed to be insured within the scope of subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of the Article 4 of the Social Security and General Health...

As one of the social insurance branches applied in Turkey, maternity insurance in the social insurance system is designed to provide financial and medical support to working women during pregnancy, after childbirth and while breastfeeding. The maternity insurance is being implemented as mixed with the health insurance and the work accident and occupational diseases insurance...