New regulations came into force for employers and employees with the Law No. 7256 published in the Official Gazette, dated 17 Nov 2020, numbered 31307.

Important Points Regarding the Additional Employment Incentives as per the New Regulation

For those who benefit from unemployment benefits, long-term insurance premiums to be calculated for the period they benefit from the unemployment benefit will be covered by the Unemployment Insurance Fund, if they are employed within 90 days following their termination, work subject to uninterrupted service contract for 12 months and make a request.

The President has been authorized to extend the Employment Incentive practice of Young, Women and those with professional certificates until 31/12/2023.

The President has been authorized to extend the additional employment support in the provisional article 19 of the Unemployment Insurance Law until 31/12/2023.

The President has been authorized to extend the income tax withholding incentive and stamp tax support provided to private sector employers who provide additional employment in accordance with Law No. 7103 until 31/12/2023.

The effective date of the Tradesmen's ahi-order Fund application has been changed as 31/12/2023.

Istanbul Public Health Board has announced new measures on 04.11.2020 for Covid-19.

As per these decisions, the following workplaces should be closed at 22:00, the latest:

• Restaurants, cafes, patisseries except deliverers,
• Coffeeshops,
• Barbers, coiffeurs,
• Wedding ceremony halls,
• Sport centers,
• Internet cafes, game centers,
• Theatres, cinemas, concert halls,
• Swimming pools, etc. places.

Data controllers are obliged to take the necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure data privacy and data security within the scope of both the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") in Europe. These measures are not specified in a limited number, but they are stipulated to determine the need of data controllers for "necessity." This necessity differs for each activity.

In addition, the life cycle of personal data in the business activities of the organization changes over time. For example, a marketing activity or employee satisfaction activity may occur, which does not currently exist; an existing process may be terminated, the customer portfolio may expand from domestic to abroad, and private companies may be included into suppliers.

As known, with the "Regulation on the Amendment of the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Automatic Enrollment of Employees in the Pension Plan Through Their Employers", which entered into force on 7.12.2018, the points that employers should pay attention to in mandatory individual pension processes were explained.

According to these points, employers may have some obligations regarding automatic private pension plans as of 2021. (There is no need for any additional processing for employers who were previously included in the scope of Mandatory Private Pension Plan - automatic enrollment. These employers will continue their current Mandatory Private Pension Plans.)

You can find below the related explanations of these points below: