Employers have a number of different declaration obligations under Turkish Labour laws and regulations. This article provides an overview of such common obligations.

 

 

 6645 enumerated 'Law amending Work Place Health and Safety and other laws and enactments' has been published in the Reiterated Official Gazette on 23/04/2015 and entered into force on the date of publishing. With the Bill Omnibus, which includes 89 articles, many regulations, including Labour Law, Social Security and Income Tax have been subject to important changes. This article consists of briefing on the most significant amendments concerning employees and employers.

 

Law 6337 amending certain laws and enactments introduces certain government grants and support in the Family and Social Policies enactment enumerated 633:

Supplementary Article 2 – Marriage Savings Account and Government Benefit (entry into force: 07/04/2015)

Supplementary Article 3 – Mortgage Savings Account and Government Benefit (entry into force: 07/04/2015)

Supplementary Article 4 – Child Birth Benefit (entry into force: 15/05/2015)

 Resource Support Fund Taxation, significant cost for export companies, is reduced to 0% contribution rate for certain export goods.

The Cabinet has listed the goods for the %0 category as: animal and plant based oils, metal ores, cinder, organic chemicals, plastics and by-products, wood and wooden goods, glass and glass goods, iron and steel, copper and copper goods, aluminum and aluminum goods.

The related enactment can be viewed here (available in Turkish).