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1. Does an employer need a reason to lawfully terminate an employment relationship? If so, state what reasons are lawful in your jurisdiction? The ways of the employer’s right to lawfully terminate an employment relationship are divided into two […]

Social Security Institution (the “Institution”) has prepared the “Communique on Postponement of Payment Dates of Premium Debts and the Submission Dates of Information, Documents and Declarations which are Required to be Submitted to the Institution” (“Communique”) and published it […]

“Presidential Decree on the Measures Taken in the Field of Labor and Social Security Under the State of Emergency” numbered 125 (“Presidential Decree No. 125”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 22 February 2023, and numbered 32112, and […]

With the Circular on Financial and Social Rights (“Circular”) published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance-General Directorate of Public Financial Management and Transformation on 4 July 2022, the severance payment limit has been determined as TRY 15,371.40. The […]

The Constitutional Court concluded that while some female employees with children working at the workplace of the complainant were provided with daycare facilities, the failure to provide this opportunity to the complainant was within the scope of the right […]

Employment law and the covid-19 pandemic What measures remain in place to protect employees against dismissal or avoid redundancies as a result of the continuing impact of the covid-19 pandemic? During the pandemic, with the decree numbered 3592, the […]

Regulation Amending the Wage Guarantee Fund Regulation (“Amendment Regulation”) has entered into force after being published in Official Gazette dated 30 September 2021 and numbered 31614. The Amendment Regulation aims to clarify the procedures and principles to be applied […]

Presidential Decree numbered 3930 (the “Decree”), published in Official Gazette numbered 31470, of April 30, 2021, extends employer prohibitions on termination of employment contracts specified in article 10 (temp.) pp. 1 and 2 of Employment Law numbered 4857, and […]

Social Security Institution Circular, dated 1 April.2021, and numbered 2021/9 (the “Circular”), removes dismissal code “29 – Termination by the employer due to employee’s violation of the rules of ethics and goodwill,” regulated previously by Circular numbered 2013/11. In […]

The Regulation on Remote Working (“Regulation”), issued by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services in order to regulate the works that are not compatible with remote working, the implementation of business rules regarding data protection and sharing, […]