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In Turkey, the public body which is responsible for supporting employment is Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR). İŞKUR employes Job and Vocational Consultant’s for supporting employment and recruitment needs of employers. Every Job and Vocational Consultant has an employer portfolio. Job and Vocational Consultants visit the employers in their portfolio and help them inform them about...

According to the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510, “students who were subjected to internship while studying in vocational high schools or during their higher education” are considered insured within the scope of subparagraph “b” of the first paragraph of the Article 5 of Law No. 5510, as subjected to Work Accident...

R&D is innovative activities carried out on a systematic basis in order to increase scientific and technical knowledge and the use of the resulting knowledge in new applications (products or processes). Innovation refers to a series of scientific, technological, financial and commercial activities aimed at transforming an idea into an improved, updated or new and...

What is the Ahilik Fund Application? In Turkey, unemployment benefits are currently only given to people who are unemployed in certain circumstances while working under a service contract attached to an employer. On the other hand, it is not possible for the self-employed insured to receive “unemployment benefits” if they become unemployed for any reason....

According to the provisions of the International Labor Code No. 6735, employers who will employ foreigners to work in Turkey are required to obtain a work permit before the foreigner starts working. Work permit is a type of permit issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security as an official document and gives the...

The Social Insurance Premium Incentive No. 06111, is one of the most important social insurance premium incentives applied in Turkey. The incentive has started to be implemented in the year 2011 in order to increase the participation and employment of women, youth and people with vocational training in the workforce, to encourage the creation of...

The Social Insurance Premium Incentive of the Act No. 6111, is one of the most important social insurance premium incentives applied in Turkey. The incentive has started to be implemented in the year 2011 in order to increase the participation and employment of women, youth and people with vocational training in the workforce, to encourage...

Social insurance for children working for various reasons in-line with the regulations of the Turkish Labour Code, is being regulated in the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510. Accordingly, work accident, occupational disease and sickness insurance branches are applied to candidate apprentices, apprentices and students receiving vocational training in enterprises. On the...

The Labour Code No. 4857, which is the basic law of Turkish Labour Law, allowed individuals who have not reached the age of 18 (who have the status of ‘children’ according to the Turkish Civil Code) to be employed and work in certain cases and with certain special conditions. In this regard, according to the...

In cases where the weekly working hours a workplace are temporarily reduced by at least one third due to general economic, sectoral or regional crisis, or force majeure, or if the activity at the workplace is stopped completely or partially for at least four weeks without requiring continuity, income support will be provided to the...