What Is Unemployment Benefit (Unemployment Allowance)?

Unemployment benefit," or as specified in the law, "unemployment allowance," is a payment provided to individuals who have previously worked as insured and meet all the conditions specified in Law No. 4447 (In Turkish) to financially support them to prevent income loss when they become unemployed. Unemployment benefit is provided to insured individuals for a specific duration and amount during the period of their unemployment, based on certain conditions as specified in the law. The purpose of providing unemployment benefits is to ensure that the individual who becomes unemployed can sustain their own and their family's livelihood during the period of unemployment.

"SSI missing days" is a term used to refer to the number of days an employee falls short of the required premium days within a month of working. In case an employee works less than 30 days due to various reasons, the employer submits a document called the "notification of missing days" to the Social Security Institution (SSI). These documents are prepared for the relevant months and kept by the employer for ten years, to be provided to the SSI upon request. From March 2018, a new practice has been implemented, which requires employers to specify the reasons for missing day notifications in the monthly premium and service documents/Withholding and Premium Service Declaration by the 26th of each month.

Data Controller and Data Processor Concepts

The Personal Data Protection Law is a young law that entered into force in 2016. For this reason, it can be easily said that it has taken shape in accordance with the needs of our age. The purpose of The Personal Data Protection Law is to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, in the processing of personal data, and to regulate the obligations and procedures and principles to be followed by real and legal persons who process personal data. In line with this purpose, the law has made many regulations and tried to clarify the relevant concepts. The concepts of data processor and data controller are among the concepts regulated in the KVKK.