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The Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 defines employees who have completed the age of 15 but have not completed the age of 18 as “young workers” and employees who are over the age of 14, under the age of 15 and who have completed compulsory primary education as “child workers”. According to the Turkish Labour...

The basic regulations regarding Turkish Labour Law were made by the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857. Within the scope of the aforimentioned law, employers are obliged to keep personnel files of the people they employ. In accordance with the Article 75 of the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, employers are obliged to prepare a “personal...

In Turkey, it is a common practice for employers to provide meal aid to their employees. Meal aid can be in the form of directly providing meals to employees in the workplace, or it can be in the form of giving employees money for meals or cash equivalents such as meal cards or tickets. Meals...

In Turkey, it is a common practice for employers to provide meal aid to their employees. Meal aid can be in the form of directly providing meals to employees at the workplace, or it can be in the form of giving employees money for meals or valuables that replace money, such as meal cards or...

The Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 requires the employee’s approval to be obtained by the employer in order to work overtime or work for extra hours in workplaces. An employer who wants to make his/her employee to work overtime in a workplace must obtain written approval from the employee prior the work. Making overtime work...

According to the Turkish Labor Code No. 4857, the normal daily working time in workplaces is generally 7.5 hours and the normal weekly working time is 45 hours at most. Unless otherwise agreed, this period is applied equally to the working days of the week in workplaces. The working hours of workers working in underground...

There are legal remedies defined in the Turkish Legislation for employees who are subjected to mobbing (psychological harrassment). The legal remedies changes whether the employment relationship is going on or ended.   Legal Remedies While the Business Relationship Continues For Preventing the Attack and Stopping the Ongoing Attack: The individual who is subjected to mobbing...

The Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 constitutes the primary legislation of the Turkish Labour Law. According to the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, which regulates the employment relations, overtime or extra-hours working in a workplace are subjected to special conditions. Accordingly, an employer who wants his/her employees to work overtime at the workplace must obtain...

According to the Turkish Labor Code No. 4857, employers are required to keep a personnel file for each employee they employ. At this point, there are hesitations about whether personnel files should be kept on paper as hard copy with wet signatures or electronically. Turkish Labour Law generally places the burden of proof in employee-employer...

Mobbing is when employees are being harrassed by the employer, by a manager, by another person and/or people in the workplace with disturbing, immoral and systematic words and behaviors. Mobbing is the psychological pressure exerted by the powerful on those at the bottom, especially in groups with a hierarchical structure and institutions with weak control....