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According to the Article 63 of the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, works over 45 hours per week is defined as overtime work. Daily breaks and the time spent on the road are not taken into account in the calculation of 45 hours. In overtime work, the hourly wage of the worker must be calculated...

As it is known, a retirement reform is on the agenda of the Turkish labour life. In this regard, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the Republic of Turkey is currently preparing a new regulation bill regarding “Employees waiting for retirement age” (also known as EYT in Turkey). According to the Turkish Social...

Concerns about the new pension reform, which is expected to be enacted by the Turkish Parliament as of January 2023, are common in the Turkish business life. With the prospective reform to be made, it is expected that 1.5 million people in total will be able to retire immediately, out of 4.5 million employees waiting...

The Turkish Constitutional Court signed an important decision in the nature of case law regarding the protection of personal data of workers. The Turkish Constitutional Court evaluated the application of a worker who was dismissed because of his correspondence with his colleague via SMS system. In the final decision, the Supreme Court, emphasizing that messaging...

One of the rights of the workers in accordance to the Turkish Labour Code is “severance pay” which is to be paid to workers with at least one year seniority. Severance pay is entitled in the following cases: – Dismissal of the employee by the employer without a just cause. – The employee’s termination of...

The Act No. 4720 Amending the Income Tax Code and Some Laws and Decrees has been enacted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly recently and is expected to be in force as to be published in the Turkish Official Gazette soon. One of the important policy that is being introduced by the law is the...

The Bill of Law regarding Amendments the Income Tax Law and Certain Laws and Decrees, which includes regulations regarding the labour life, was passed in the General Assembly of the Turksih Grand National Assembly and has became law. With the new act, important regulations concerning labour life have been made, and the regulations concerning workers...

Turkey is one of the countries that use e-government applications the most within the European countries. According to statistics, more than half of the services that require individuals to apply directly to public institutions can be performed remotely, via online mediums, without the need to go to a public institution. Thanks to the system of...

The minimum wage in Turkey is the gross wage that shows the minimum amount that a worker in Turkey should receive in return for his thirty days of work. As the country is implementing a national single-rate minimum wage, the minimum wage determination consists an important change for all employers wherever they operate in Turkey...

According to the Turkish Labour Law, mobbing, which is also expressed as psychological harassment or psychological supression of the employee by employers, is being prohibited. In the Article 417 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, which regulates the employer’s obligations to protect the worker and imposes the employer’s obligation to supervise the worker, “mobbing prohibition”...