{"id":16690,"date":"2023-03-14T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/?p=16690"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:49:42","slug":"part-time-work-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/part-time-work-in-turkey","title":{"rendered":"Part-time work in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article 13 of the Turkish Labour Law<\/a> generally defines a part-time work (employment contract) in Turkey, and it is accepted that a part-time employment contract will arise if the part-time employment contract is determined significantly less than the equivalent employee working with a full-time employment contract, but there is no regulation on the duration. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The regulation on the duration was introduced by Article 6 of the Regulation on Working Hours Regarding the Labour Law and it is stipulated that the work performed up to two-thirds of the equivalent work performed with a full-time employment contract in the workplace shall be accepted as part-time work in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, if the workplace is established on a full-time basis, 6 days a week and 7.5 hours of working time per day, part-time work in Turkey can be at most 5 hours. If the workplace works 5 days for 9 hours each day, then the partial work will be determined as 6 hours at most. If the workplace works for 5 hours on Saturday and 8 hours on weekdays, part-time work cannot exceed 5 hours and 20 minutes on weekdays and 3 hours and 20 minutes on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Article 13 of the Law, a special type of part-time employment contract is defined and part-time work is included in the period after the birth in case of maternity. The Regulation on Part-Time Work After Maternity Leave or Unpaid Leave entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette dated 08.11.2016 and numbered 29882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one of the parents is not working, it is not possible for the working spouse to request part-time work in Turkey. Again, it is not possible for those who adopt a child under the age of three together with their spouse or individually to benefit from this right from the date the child is actually delivered. In case of such a request, this request must be met by the employer. The request in this direction will not be considered as a valid reason. However, within the framework of these regulations, it is also possible for the employee who started part-time work to return to full-time work for the same child, provided that he\/she does not benefit from this right again. In this case, the employee must notify the employer of this request in writing at least one month in advance. In such a case, the employment contract of the employee hired instead of this employee will automatically terminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aforementioned regulation, the legal regulations regarding the right to maternity leave, the right to unpaid leave for half of the working period and the right to unpaid leave for up to six months are repeated and the regulations under the third section are devoted to part-time work after maternity leave and subsequent unpaid leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Article 8 of the Regulation, it is possible for the employee to request part-time work in Turkey at any time from the end of the analysis leave, unpaid leave up to half of the working period or unpaid leave up to six months until the beginning of the month following the date of the child’s compulsory primary education. It is seen that the employee is granted an optional right. The employee can benefit from this right after the expiry of any of the consecutive leaves regulated in Article 74 of the Law or after the expiry of all of them. In accordance with the second paragraph of the article, it is even possible to make this request by interrupting the unpaid leave period up to six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third paragraph regulates how and when the request for part-time work shall be submitted. According to the regulation, the request shall be notified to the employer in writing by the employee at least one month prior to the utilisation of this right. The time and written form requirement here shall not be understood as a condition of validity. If this is not fulfilled, the employer cannot be expected to implement the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elements of the partial work request are subject to Article 9 of the regulation. According to the first paragraph, the worker’s request for part-time work must include the date on which the worker will start part-time work, the starting and ending times of the work in case of working on all working days, and the preferred working days in case of working on certain days of the week. The employee must also attach a document stating that his\/her spouse is employed to this request. The employee’s part-time work request petition will be kept by the employer in the employee’s personnel file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conditions of the part-time work request are regulated in Article 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one of the spouses is not working, the working spouse will not be able to request part-time work. However, some exceptions have been introduced to this general regulation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n