Labor Law Numbered 4857

CHAPTER 1 "General Provisions"

- Purpose and scope

ARTICLE 1 - The purpose of this Act is to regulate the working conditions and work-related rights and obligations of employers and employees working under an employment contract.

Apart from those cited in Article 4, this Act shall apply to all the establishments and their employers, employer's representatives, and employees, irrespective of the subject matter of their activities.

Establishments, employers, employer's representatives, and employees shall be subject to this Act irrespective of the date of the notification to be made to the regional directorate of labor under Article 3.

Within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 which has been announced in the 29677 Numbered Official Gazette dated April 7, 2016, it is highly crucial for the natural persons and legal entities to meet all the legal compliancy requirements in dealing with the personal data that they obtain, use, store, process to avoid the administrative penalty fines and possible incompliancy sanctions.

According to the circular numbered 27998389-010-06-02-5278 released by the General Directorate of Budget and Fiscal Control on 04.07.2018 with the subject ‘Financial and Social Rights’, the coefficients used to calculate the wage of a civil servant have been revised effective 01.07.2018.

A new regulation has been implemented for the work permit applications that are conducted through the Ministry of Labor. This regulation is applied for both initial applications and the renewal applications of the currently issued valid work permits.