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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 […]

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, […]

Article 25/II of the Employment Law numbered 4857 (“Employment Law”) states that employers will have the right to immediately terminate employment agreements with a valid reason and without any compensation if employees act “against moral and good faith principles”. […]

23rd Chamber of the Supreme Court established that the statute of limitations shall be applicable as 10 years for recourse claims between the main employer and the sub-contractor under a subcontracting agreement. In the event of a valid subcontracting […]

The Turkish Constitutional Court has invalidated certain provisions of the Employment Law numbered 4857 (“Employment Law ”) for being against the principle of equality. The sixth paragraph of article 112 of the Employment Law prevented public institutions to recourse […]

The General Assembly on the Unification of Judgments of the Court of Cassation (“Assembly”) decided that penal clause due to early unjust termination of a labor contract is valid only for the time period stated in the contract, if […]

The Law number 3201 on Evaluation of Services, given abroad by Turkish Citizens, in terms of Social Security (the “Law”), is amended with the Law Number 7186 Amending Income Tax Law and Certain Other Laws (the “Omnibus Bill”). The […]