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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...

Informal employment, also known a s the informal sector in labour markets, refers to work that is not regulated by labour laws and social security systems. It includes self-employed individuals and workers in unregistered or unregulated businesses, as well as those who are not covered by minimum wage or protected by labour laws, or those...

According to the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, which is the primer legislation of the Turkish Labour Law, working mothers are entitled to several rights in the nature of positive discrimination. As to start, working mothers are entitled to breastfeeding breaks. In accordance, working mothers are to be given breastfeeding breaks of one-and-a-half hour each...

Occupational diseases are illnesses or health conditions that are caused or deteriorated by the work or working conditions of a working person. The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines occupational diseases as “any disease or illness contracted as a result of an exposure to risk factors arising from work environment or work activity.” Occupational diseases can...

The Unemployment Insurance is one of the social insurance practices implemented in Turkey. If the insured meet the conditions specified in the law, the payment made for a certain period and amount for the period he/she was unemployed is called “unemployment benefit” (“unemployment allowance”). In accordance with the Unemployment Insurance Code No. 4447, unemployment benefit...