a. Minimum Wage

In the press release dated December 22, 2022, the Ministry of Labor, along with the Minimum Wage Determination Committee has announced the minimum wage to be effective for the year of 2023, as shown in the table below.

The Bilateral Social Security Administrative Agreement between Türkiye and Iran has been approved by the decision published on the Official Gazette dated December 15, 2022 and numbered 32044.

The scope of the Administrative Agreement is as below:

• Sickness and maternity allowances.
• Old age, disability and death pensions.
• Funeral allowance.
• Occupational diseases.

With the application number 2018/6161 and dated June 28, 2022 Constitutional Court Decision has been published in the Official Gazette No. 32049 on December 20, 2022, it has been concluded that the right to effective remedy, which is a positive obligation that must be carried out and assumed by the public authorities, has been violated.

The applicant had applied to the relevant telecommunication company for internet data, log records, IMEI information, hot spot date information and IP numbers received jointly with other subscribers belonging to his telephone line and containing a certain date range to be given to himself, and the request was not accepted by the relevant company. In the suit filed thereon, the local court decided to dismiss the case from the procedure, no positive results have been obtained from the legal remedy applied.

Social Security Institution has regulated the SSI premium threshold with regards to the meal vouchers / meal tickets (benefit in kinds) with the Communiqué no: 2022/22 which is applicable as of December, 1 2022.

The new regulation can be summarized as below:

The employers can prefer to provide meal vouchers / tickets, etc as a meal allowance to the employees.