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Social Security Support Premium is an implementation specific to the Turkish social insurance model. Social Security Support Premium is the premium received from the employers of the insured persons, who fulfill the condition of certain age, insurance period and number of premium payment days and receive a retirement or an old-age pensions, if they work...

Severance pay is the monetary benefit that is paid collectively by the employer to the workers whose employment contract ends in one of the situations defined in the Labour Code No 1475. For each full year from the date of commencement to the date of exit, the employee is paid severance pay over 30 days’...

The amount of the monthly minimum wage in Turkey to be applied in the year 2023, which directly concerns more than 7 million employees and indirectly all citizens, has been announced. Accordingly, the national monthly minimum wage, which will be valid in 2023, has been announced as net 8 thousand 506 Liras and as gross...

The work of the Minimum Wage Determination Commission has been completed as of 22nd of December 2022. The new monthly minimum wage, which will be effective for the calendar year of 2023 as of January 1, is being announced to the public at a meeting attended by President Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Labor and Social...

Severance Pay is one of the right of the workers that is being envisaged in the Turkish Labour Law. It is the monetary benefit that is paid collectively by the employer to the workers whose employment contract ends in one of the situations defined in the Law No. For each full year from the date...

If the objective conditions defined in the Labour Code No. 4857 are met, it is possible to employ employees with a fixed-term employment contract. If a certain project exist this justifies and can be evaluated as objective condition employing the employee for a fixed term. However, if the contract is limited to a certain period...

According to the Turkish Labour Law and the Law Regarding Vocational Training, certain employers are obliged to provide skills training to students and employ internees. Initially, this has to be clarified that, according to the Vocational Training Act No. 3308, enterprises employing ten or more personnel are obliged to provide skills training to the students...

With the 13th Article of the Regulation on Working Conditions of Pregnant or Nursing Women, Breastfeeding Rooms, and Child Care Dormitories, which was enacted based on the Article 30 of the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, employers are obliged to open a Nursing Room and Nursery in their workplaces. The fourth part of...

According to Turkish law, there are some documents that employers are obliged to keep in accordance with Turkish labour and social security law. In addition to showing these documents as evidence in possible disputes, there are also legal obligations to archive and protect them. In accordance with an obligation arising from Turkish laws, it is...

Applications for the 2023 National Internship Mobilization Program, which is organized every year by the Human Resources Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, will soon end on the date of January 18, 2023. The National Internship Program was initiated by the Human Resources Office of the Presidency in order to ensure that...