With the Constitutional Court Decision published in the Official Gazette No. 32221 on June 14, 2023, it was concluded that some sentences of Article 6 of the Press Labor Law, which relate to the conditions for the journalist to be entitled to severance pay, were contrary to the equality principle of the Constitution and for this reason, it was decided to cancel the relevant sentences.

The relevant regulations subject to the cancelation decision of the Constitutional Court are as follows:

The Ministry of Industry and Technology has announced the international talent transfer project to simplify the employment of the international technology talents in Türkiye.

The Ministry also states that that this project has been initiated to inform foreign technology experts and technology companies located in Türkiye who would like to employ these experts.

The details of this project can be summarized as below:

The 2022 minimum wage support has come into force with the Law No: 7417 published on the Official Gazette dated 01 July 2022 and numbered 31887.

Based on that, in case that all conditions are met, the minimum wage support will be automatically deducted from the social security premium payments on the upcoming periods by the Social Security Institution without any application.

The conditions required for 2022 minimum wage support can be summarized as below:

According to the 27998389-010.06.02-1342135 numbered Circular published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance with the subject 'Financial and Social Rights', the coefficients used to calculate the wage of a public officers have been revised effective 01.07.2022.

Income Tax Exempted Severance Pay

The following value has been calculated taking these coefficients into account and shall be applied for the period between the dates of 01.07.2022 - 31.12.2022 maximum severance pay to be exempted from income tax is determined as 15,371.40 TL.

To access the full circular in which these announcements were made, please click here. (Please also be advised that the contents of this circular are in Turkish language.)

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