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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...

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...