a. Minimum wage

In The press release dated December 25, 2018 the Ministry of Labor along with the Minimum Wage Determination Committee have announced the minimum wage to be effective for the year of 2019 as shown in the table below.

The “Law Proposal on Making Amendments in Certain Laws and Statutory Degrees” presented to the GNAT (Grand National Assembly of Türkiye) on 30.11.2018, will make new amendments with the goals of contributing to economic growth and increasing levels of income and welfare.

Certain clauses in the law proposal, which consists of 71 articles, are as follows:

Durations; which were stated in the clauses (a), (b), (c) and (e) of the 13th paragraph of the 10th Article that belongs to “The Law no. 7143 on Restructuring Taxational and Other Certain Debts and Amendments in Certain Laws”, published in the Recurrent Official Gazette numbered as 30611 on 30 November 2018; are extended for 6 months starting from the due dates with the Presidential Decree numbered as 405, which extends the duration for 6 months starting from the due dates of declarations of relevant assets and %2 tax payments over the declared amounts.

The Regulation on Amending the Regulation on Short-time Working and Short-time Working Allowance entered into force upon having been published in the Official Gazette No. 30590, dated 09.11.2018.

This regulation contains the amendments made to the Regulation on Short-time Working and Short-time Working Allowance, which entered into force upon having been published in the Official Gazette No. 27920, dated 30.04.2011. The relevant regulation has been prepared on the basis of the below detailed Additional Article 2 of the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447.