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With Law No. 7553 which was published in the Official Gazette dated July 14, 2025 and entered into force on the same day, two important amendments were introduced to the Labour Law dated May 22, 2003 and numbered 4857, which are summarized below.
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Author Ümit Kır, Category Labor Law
According to the Circular dated July 7, 2025 and numbered 27998389-010.06.02-4098345 published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance with the subject ‘Financial and Social Rights’, the coefficients used to calculate the wage of a public officers have been revised effective July 1, 2025.
Income Tax Exempted Severance Pay
Author Ümit Kır, Category Taxation Law, Labor Law
The decision of the Constitutional Court dated November 5, 2024 with file no 2023/158 and decision no 2024/187 ("Decision") was published in the Official Gazette numbered 32837 on March 10, 2025.
Article 27(1) of the Law on Private International Law and Procedural Law ("PIL") states "Employment contracts shall be subject to the law chosen by the parties, provided that the employee retains the minimum protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of the habitual workplace.".
Author Taylan Ege Günel, Category Labor Law
On March 6, 2025, the Presidential Circular No. 2025/3 was published in the Official Gazette No. 32833, introducing regulations aimed at preventing psychological harassment (mobbing) in workplaces.
Psychological harassment is defined as the deliberate and systematic humiliation, belittlement, exclusion, damage to dignity and reputation, mistreatment, and intimidation of employees over a certain period.