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18 June 2026

What Is Workplace Registration? How Is SSI Workplace Registration Completed?

Category Work Life

What Is Workplace Registration? How Is SSI Workplace Registration Completed?

Once a business begins employing personnel, not only do its commercial activities commence, but so do its social security obligations. In order for employees to be registered as insured individuals, for premium obligations to be fulfilled, and for transactions before the Social Security Institution (SSI) to be carried out, the employer must first notify the workplace to the Social Security Institution. This process is referred to in the legislation as workplace registration.

09 April 2026

What Is a Payroll Calendar? How Does It Simplify the Payroll Process?

Category Work Life, Technology

What Is a Payroll Calendar? How Does It Simplify the Payroll Process?

The success of a payroll process is not limited to calculating wages using accurate formulas. In practice, the real determining factor is whether all steps that feed data into payroll operate in the correct sequence, at the right time, and through the appropriate systems. When working hours, leave records, overtime, fringe benefits, SSI declarations, tax obligations, and payment dates are not managed within a single timeline, even the most capable payroll teams begin to struggle. For this very reason, the payroll calendar stands out as one of the most critical control tools underlying payroll operations.

23 March 2026

What Is the Right to Erasure? GDPR, Turkish Data Protection Law (KVKK), and Back-Up Compliance in Light of the EDPB Report

Category KVKK - GDPR

What Is the Right to Erasure? GDPR, Turkish Data Protection Law (KVKK), and Back-Up Compliance in Light of the EDPB Report

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published a comprehensive report under the 2025 Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF), examining how the right to erasure, as regulated under Article 17 of the GDPR, is implemented across Europe. Within the scope of this study, 764 controllers were assessed through investigations conducted by 32 data protection authorities, and the structural challenges encountered in the implementation of the right to erasure, as well as examples of good practices, were identified.

22 May 2026

What Is the BES Automatic Enrollment System?

Category Work Life, Technology

What Is the BES Automatic Enrollment System?

In Türkiye, the individual pension system has evolved from being merely a voluntary savings instrument into a structure that operates in direct integration with the labor market. The Automatic Enrollment System (AES), which constitutes the most significant pillar of this transformation, aims to support employees’ financial future while introducing a model that requires the restructuring of payroll, human resources, and financial processes from the employer’s perspective.

30 March 2026

How Do Regulatory Changes Affect Payroll Processes? Automatic Regulatory Updates in Payroll Systems

Category Work Life, Technology

How Do Regulatory Changes Affect Payroll Processes? Automatic Regulatory Updates in Payroll Systems

Payroll management is often perceived in many organizations as merely a wage calculation process. In reality, however, it represents a much broader and more multidimensional framework. Payroll is a critical process through which the employer fulfills its financial obligations to employees while also interacting directly with tax and social security systems.

13 March 2026

What Is Leave Management? Digital Leave Management with Human Resource Management Systems

Category Work Life, Technology

What Is Leave Management? Digital Leave Management with Human Resource Management Systems

Leave management is a critical human resources function that encompasses the entitlement, accrual, request, approval, recording, and reporting processes of employee absences such as annual leave, personal leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and unpaid leave within an organization. In many institutions, this process is often perceived as an “operational” task. However, in practice, leave management directly affects areas such as labor law compliance, payroll accuracy, consistency of social security (SSI) notifications, and the management of incentive-related risks.

14 May 2026

What Is Payroll? How to Calculate Payroll?

Category Work Life

What Is Payroll? How to Calculate Payroll?

What Is Payroll?

Payroll is a document detailing the wage paid by the employer to the employee, along with the statutory deductions and additional payments related to this wage. It is also referred to as a wage slip. In Türkiye, pursuant to Article 37 of Labor Law No. 4857, the employer is obliged to provide the employee with a wage calculation slip.

30 March 2026

CJEU Decision on the Limits of the Right of Access under the GDPR

Category KVKK - GDPR

CJEU Decision on the Limits of the Right of Access under the GDPR

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its judgment dated March 19, 2026 in Case C-526/24 (Brillen Rottler) ("Decision"), has established an important precedent regarding the limits of data subject rights under the GDPR. The Decision clarifies under which conditions the right of access under Article 15 GDPR may be restricted within the framework of Article 12(5) GDPR, while also reassessing the scope of the right to compensation under Article 82 GDPR.

06 March 2026

New Principle Decision from the Turkish Data Protection Authority on Loyalty Programs: Six-Month Compliance Period for Data Controllers

Category KVKK - GDPR

New Principle Decision from the Turkish Data Protection Authority on Loyalty Programs: Six-Month Compliance Period for Data Controllers

The Personal Data Protection Board's (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurulu) Principle Decision No. 2026/266 (In Turkish), published in the Official Gazette dated February 28, 2026 and numbered 33182, has significantly clarified both the legal nature of loyalty card programmes and the obligations incumbent on data controllers.

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