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The Act No. 7524 on Amendments to Tax Laws and Certain Laws, which also includes important regulations regarding employment and labour life, is being published in the Turkish Official Gazette dated August 2, 2024, and has entered into force. With the aforementioned law, the Five-Point Social Insurance Premium Incentive coded “15510” (incentive given to employers...

The Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 does not have a working regime that is essentially compatible with flexible employment models. In this regard, Turkish Labour Law is regarded as one of the rigid labour law regimes compared to the industrialised world. According to the law, the working method is determined with its general elements and...

The Act No. 7524 on Amendments to Tax Laws and Certain Laws, which also includes important regulations regarding employment and labour life, is being published in the Turkish Official Gazette dated August 2, 2024, and has entered into force. With the aforementioned law, the premium rate of the short-term social insurance branches paid by employers has...

According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act No. 6331, it is mandatory for employees who will work in certain jobs to receive vocational training and to have the relevant professional competence certification. In this context, the procedures and principles of the vocational training of those who will be employed in hazardous and very dangerous...

One of the rights regulated in the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, which is the primary law of Turkish Labour Law, is the right to annual paid leave. The employee can submit his annual leave request to the employer verbally or in written form. The Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 does not specify any way...

Workers’ rights to paid and unpaid leave are issues that are frequently confused in practice. Although they are often used interchangeably in practice, paid leave and unpaid leave are fundamentally different in accordance with the Turkish Labour Law. Annual paid leave, as defined in the Labour Code No. 4857, refers to the leave periods that...

One of the rights defined for workers in the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857 is the right to annual paid leave. Accordingly, workers who have worked in the workplace for at least one year have the right to annual leave between 14 and 26 days, depending on their seniority, the job they do and their...

According to the Turkish Labour Law, there are some rules regarding the implementation of annual paid leave. These rules can be summarised as follows:   Prohibition on working during annual leave The right to annual paid leave cannot be waived, and even if the employee wishes to work during the annual leave period, the annual...

The employer is obliged to pay in cash and in advance the wage for the annual leave period to each employee who uses annual paid leave, before the relevant employee starts his or her leave. In the calculation of this wage, the wages received for overtime, premiums, the wages and social benefits received by workers...

In line with the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, annual paid leave cannot be divided by the employer. The main reason for this prohibition on division is to prevent the employee’s annual leave right from being divided and rendered meaningless. Annual leave must be granted continuously by the employer within the periods determined according to...