a. Minimum Wage

In The press release dated December 28, 2020 the Ministry of Labor along with the Minimum Wage Determination Committee have announced the minimum wage to be effective for the year of 2021 as shown in the table below.

With the Presidential Decision published in the Official Gazette dated December 23, 2020 and numbered 31343;

For those who have never applied for short-term employment before / for those who will apply for the first time, the deadline of 31.12.2020 was extended to 31.01.2021.

For those who applied for short-term employment before 30.06.2020, the previously extended deadline of 31.12.2020 was extended to 28.02.2021.

The details regarding the cancellation of excessive payment refunds in the short-term employment allowance, which entered into force pursuant to the temporary article 29 of the Law No. 4447, were announced with İŞKUR Circular No. 2020/5 (dated 11.12.2020).

According to the circular; "The Procedures and Principles Regarding the Cancellation of Excessive Payments Under the New Coronavirus (Covid-19) Short-Term Employment" are as below:

Excessive and improper payment;

• The force-majeure reason should be related to short-term employment based on New Coronavirus (Covid-19).
• Regardless of the date on which excessive and improper payment was created, the payment period should belong to the period October 2020 and before.
• It should not have been collected as of 17/11/2020.
• It must have been caused by the incorrect transitions of the employers.

The Regulation on the Processing of Personal Data and the Protection of Privacy in the Electronic Communications Sector ("Regulation") was published in the Official Gazette dated 4.12.2020 with no. 31324. The Regulation regulated within the scope of Electronic Communications Law Numbered 5809 ("Law"), and sets forth the terms and conditions to be followed by the operators who operate in the electronic communications sector in terms of the data they obtain within the scope of providing electronic communications services, including legal person subscriptions.

The regulation covers companies that provide electronic communication services and/or provide electronic communication networks and operate their infrastructure within the framework of authorization ("Operator"). The featured statements in the Regulation are as follows: