Controversial Article 21 also Removed from Employment Package

Controversial Article 21 also Removed from Employment Package Controversial article 21 was also removed from the employment package. Thus, there is no item on flexible working in the package. All material from the employment package, including flexible working issues discussed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was removed. Some articles in the Unemployment Insurance Law submitted to the Presidency of the Assembly on October 16 and the bill on amendments to some laws caused great debate. Articles 33 and 37 on flexible working, which popularize flexible working without personal rights, were removed from these. Now the 21st article, which includes the transition from full-time to part-time work, has also been removed. As a result, all articles including flexible working in the employment package were removed.   What Subjects did the Articles Contain? In the employment package, article 33 allowed workers under 25 and over 50 to be employed on fixed-term contracts for up to 2 years. If it were accepted, objective criteria such as the duration of the construction or the duration of the project were observed for a fixed-term employment contract, while the objective criterion would not be followed by the regulation removed from the proposal. Accordingly, as the relationship between the employee and the employer would end automatically at the end of the contract period, notice and severance pay would not be given for the periods worked in this way. In the 37th article, which was removed from the proposal, if those under the age of 25 were employed less than 10 days a month, it was allowed not to pay premiums for disability, old age and death pension. When this happened, work before the age of 25 would not count towards retirement. In addition, holding a regular job with the right to severance pay before the age of 25 would also become invalid. Finally, article 21, which was removed from the proposal, included the imposition of a monthly tax exemption up to 10 percent of the minimum wage for those who accepted to work part-time while working full-time. There were criticisms regarding this article that there will be a loss of severance pay for periods after the transition to part-time work and that the severance pay of previous years may be at risk.