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Foreign nationals who want to work in Türkiye must obtain either a work permit or a work permit exemption certificate. Work permits for foreigners are being issued by the General Directorate of International Labour Force of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. In order to be granted a work permit, the employee and the...

In accordance with the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Act No. 5510, which is the primary law of the Turkish Social Security System, “marriage allowance” constitutes one of the social security benefits provided to insured people and beneficiaries in Turkey. Accordingly, to girls whose income or pension must be cut off due to their...

In Turkish Labour Law, the concepts of “Child Labor” and “Young Worker” are defined in the Labor Law No. 4857. Accordingly, young worker refers to “an employee who has completed the age of 15, but has not completed the age of 18”, and the concept of “child worker” refers to “an employee who has completed...

“Bad Faith Compensation” is a legal practice regulated in the Article 17 of the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857. This practice was introduced to protect workers who are outside the scope of application of Articles 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Labour Code, in other words, “who cannot benefit from job security provisions”. In...

According to the Article 18 of the Vocational Training Law No. 3308, employers are obliged to employ interns for businesses employing ten or more personnel. Regulations regarding the wages of candidate apprentices and apprentices and students who receive vocational training in enterprises, who continue their internship or complementary education, as well as the duration of...

In Turkiye’s legislation, certain employers are required to employ interns in their workplaces in accordance with the Vocational Training Law No. 3308. According to the Article 18 of the Vocational Training Law No. 3308, the obligation to employ interns exists for businesses employing ten or more personnel. In determining the number of students, fractions are rounded...

Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) is the public body in Turkey which responsible for providing services for the unemployed as to help them access to the labour market. Turkish Employment Agency, which was established in 2003 to assist in the protection, development and expansion of employment and prevention of unemployment activities and to carry out unemployment...

Turkish Employment Agency (ISKUR for short), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, is a public institution working to increase employment throughout Turkey. One of the services provided by İŞKUR is to mediate the recruitment services of employers. Recruitment for Public Bodies Public institutions looking for personnel can submit their workforce requests...

Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) provides intermediary services for employers to find Turkish workers to take to work in jobs abroad. These services includes, meeting the labour demands of Turkish and foreign employers for employment in their businesses abroad; carrying out the procedures of job seekers who apply to work abroad; giving advertising permission to employers...

Unemployment allowance is one of the payments in the nature of social insurance made by the General Directorate of the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) within the scope of the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447. Unemployment Allowance refers to the monetary payment made by İŞKUR to insured unemployed people for the period and amount specified in...