DOING BUSINESS IN TURKEY

18 Doing Business in Turkey
LABOUR LAW
The working conditions in Turkey are
mainly regulated by the Labour Law
and the Trade Union Law.
Under the Labor Code, there are
different types of employment
contracts:
• Employment contracts for
“temporary” and “permanent”
work
• Employment contracts for a
“definite period” or an “indefinite
period”
• Employment contracts for “parttime”
and “full-time” work
• Employment contracts for
“work-upon-call”
• Employment contracts with a
trial period
• Employment contacts
constituted with a team contract
Under the Labor Law, the normal
working time is maximum 45
hours per week. In principle, this
45-hour period is equally distributed
to working days. However, in
accordance with the Labor Law, the
employer may arrange the working
time within the legal limits.
Payments for hours exceeding the
45-hour weekly working time limit
are, as a rule, made within the
“overtime period”.
The fee for each extra hour of work
shall be paid by a fifty percent
increase of the normal working rate
per hour.
Vacation period according to years
of work for an employee in Turkey
is listed in the table below:
Turkey has
Over 29.7 Million
young, welleducated
and motivated
professionals (2015,
Turkstat). Approximately
733,000 students graduate
annually from over
193 universities and
950,000 students graduate
annually from vocational
and technical high
schools. (2015, Ministry
of National
Education)
Centrum Consulting | 2017