Some amendments were made in the Labor Law (Article 64) with the Law No. 7226 Amending Some Laws published in the Official Gazette 31080 (1st Repeat) dated 26.03.2020.

The statements before the update are as below:

Compensatory Work

ARTICLE 64 – In cases where time worked has been considerably lower than the normal working time or where operations are stopped entirely for reasons of suspending work due to force majeure or on the days before or after the national and public holidays or where the employee is granted time off upon his request, the employer may call upon compensatory work within two months in order to compensate for the time lost due to unworked periods. Such work shall not be considered overtime work or work at extra hours.

Compensatory work shall not exceed three hours daily, and must not exceed the maximum daily working time in any case.

Compensatory work shall not be carried out on holidays.

With the Law no:7226 Article 43, the below update was announced:

As you know, huge volume of activities have stopped in some sectors due to the coronavirus epidemic and employers have started to implement flexible work opportunities.

The employers can apply for short-employment allowance in case of these kind of situations.

Accordingly, the authorities have announced the below updates by adding a Temporary Article 23 to the Law No: 4447 for the purpose of enhancement on the requirements for short-employment allowance.

For the applications that would be applicable until 30 June 2020:

• Of those who have paid premium for the last 60 days and constantly worked before the commencement of short employment,
• those who have paid unemployment insurance premium for at least 450 days in the last three years).

Per the Covid-19 pandemic fact treated Türkiye rapidly, The President has announced new regulations that will be in force soon.

The topics on that announcement related to work life can be listed as below:

Per the Covid-19 pandemic fact treated the whole world, Organizations started to take precautions to prevent further spread of the virus.

Based on that officials have announced many personal and social precaution methods as; personal hygiene rules, avoid from crowded environment and public transport if possible, avoid from close communications and stay at home after foreign travels for 14 days to be on the safe side. In addition to these ways, the employers consider some methods in parallel with the above to keep their work environment safe and health.

Due to the fact that huge volume of activities have stopped in some sectors due to the coronavirus pandemic and employers have started to implement flexible work or leave opportunities.

You can find the details of the legislative methods that can be chosen by the employers: