{"id":16502,"date":"2023-01-16T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/?p=16502"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:53:53","slug":"what-are-the-subcontracting-practices-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/what-are-the-subcontracting-practices-in-turkey","title":{"rendered":"What are the subcontracting practices in Turkey ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
1. The concept of subcontracting in General<\/strong> in Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Article 2 of the law, the relationship between the primary employer and the subcontractor is defined as the relationship established between an employer and the other employer who receives work from an employer in auxiliary works related to the production of goods and services carried out in the workplace or in a part of the main work in the workplace that requires specialization for technological reasons due to the necessity of the business and work and employs the workers assigned for this work only in this workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sub-employer, on the other hand, is defined in the subcontracting regulation in Turkey in parallel with the definition of the relationship as a real or legal person or institutions and organisations without legal personality who take work from an employer in auxiliary works related to the production of goods and services carried out in the workplace or in a part of the main work that requires expertise due to the necessity of the business and work and technological reasons, and employ the workers assigned for this work only in this workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The responsibility in between is adopted as a joint and several responsibility by stipulating that the primary employer shall be liable together with the sub-employer for the obligations arising from the labour law, the employment contract or the employment contract to which the sub-employer is a party in relation to that workplace against the employees of the sub-employer. Accordingly, the employee may also apply directly to the primary employer regarding the unfulfilled obligations arising from the labour law, employment contract or collective labour agreement or unpaid rights (notice and severance indemnities, annual leave, wages, overtime wages, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point, since the labour receivables are in question, it is necessary to reveal how the assertion of the statute of limitations defence and the waiver of the lawsuit or right affect the said liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accordingly, if the statute of limitations defence is in question, since the relationship between the two employers is similar to the principal debtor\/guarantor relationship regulated in Article 155 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, both the sub-employer and the primary employer will benefit from the statute of limitations defence asserted by the primary employer, since the sub-employer is perceived as the principal debtor and the primary employer as the guarantor against the workers’ receivables. Thus, it is ensured that the responsibility of the primary employer does not exceed the responsibility of the sub-employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other issue is the waiver of the lawsuit or right. In the principal-employer-sub-employer relationship, although the sub-employer has full liability, the waiver of the lawsuit against the sub-employer, who is the main debtor, will also affect the primary employer, since the guarantee obligation arising from the law, including the recourse authority of the primary employer, is in question. However, the waiver of the lawsuit against the primary employer will not result in the waiver of the lawsuit against the sub-employer. If there is a waiver of the right, this will affect both employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on the above-mentioned definition, the responsibility of the primary employer towards the employees of the sub-employer will arise in the following cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. It must be an auxiliary work related to the production of goods or services carried out in the workplace (cafeteria, security, cleaning, service, construction, installation and maintenance of machinery, etc.) or<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. In a part of the main work, there must be works that require expertise due to the necessity of the business and work and technological reasons (control, maintenance, repair, quality control, job evaluation, performance evaluation, preparation and implementation of time studies, tunelling, electrical installation, laying, material supply, etc. in large-scale construction works, etc.). As a matter of fact, it is clearly stipulated in the continuation of the article that the main work cannot be divided and subcontracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Collusion in subcontracting practices in Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Law stipulates a number of provisions in order to ensure that the principle employer-subcontractor practice arises from the real necessity of the work and to prevent the use of collusion to restrict the rights of the workers. According to this regulation, the rights of the employees of the primary employer cannot be restricted by hiring and continuing to be employed by the sub-employer, or a sub-employer relationship cannot be established with the person who was previously employed in that workplace. Otherwise, and Generally, the primary employer-subcontractor relationship will be deemed to be based on a collusive transaction and the employees of the subcontractor will be treated as the employees of the primary employer from the beginning. Additionally, administrative Penalties are also stipulated for the primary employer and sub-employer or their representatives due to this collusive transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The determination of the aforementioned collusion and the subsequent procedures will be carried out within the framework of Article 3 of the law and the provisions of the subcontracting regulation in Turkey. Accordingly, it is expected that the work to be given is primarily an auxiliary work to the main work or a work that is part of the main work but requires expertise due to the necessity of the business and work and technological reasons. Therefore, it is not possible to subcontract the main work completely or partially without the fullfilment of the aforementioned condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the main work is defined as the work that constitutes the basis of the production of goods or services in Article 3\/c of the regulation, the auxiliary work is defined in paragraph (\u011f) of the same article as the work that is related to the production of goods or services carried out in the workplace, but is not directly included in the production organisation, is not a compulsory element of production, but continues as long as the main work continues and is dependent on the main work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The work that requires specialisation due to the necessity of the business and work and technological reasons is stated in Article 11 of the regulation. Accordingly, this type of work is work that is a compulsory element of the production of goods or services and requires a separate expertise other than the expertise of the enterprise due to the nature of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the light of these definitions, it becomes possible for an employer to subcontract the auxiliary works to the main works carried out in the workplace or a part of the main work to a subcontractor if it requires specialisation due to the necessity of the business or work and technological reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, only the definition of the work is not sufficient for the establishment of this relationship, other conditions are also required by the provisions of the law and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first of these is the employment of only the workers to be employed in this work. This issue is clearly stated both in the provision of the law and in paragraph c of Article 4 of the regulation, which lists the conditions for the establishment of the primary employer-subcontractor relationship. Another condition is that the sub-employer must not be a person who has previously worked in that workplace in accordance with Article 4\/d of the law and regulation. However, this condition has been softened by clarifying and clarifying the aspects that are not fully understood from the provision of the law, and the fact that the person who previously worked in the workplace has become a legal person or ordinary partnership shareholder has ceased to be a prohibitive issue in terms of establishing a primary employer-subcontractor relationship. In this respect, a person who has previously worked in a workplace cannot be a subcontractor only if he\/she takes work as a real person, and the fact that this person is a shareholder in a legal entity or ordinary partnership will not affect this relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the conditions for the establishment of the primary employer-subcontractor relationship have been determined in this way by the provisions of the law and the regulation, it is necessary to draw a conclusion about collusion in line with these definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Article 3\/g of the Regulation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Article 12 of the Regulation, if there is evidence of illegality or collusion based on the subcontracting agreement or the attached documents in Turkey, the examination of collusion will begin with the notification of the relevant provincial directorate to the labour inspection group presidency. Labour inspectors will continue this examination;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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