Abstract:

On 29.01.2016, a couple of amendments were introduced to the 4857 Labor Law with the Law No. 6663. These amendments are related to the Article 13 and Article 74 of the Labor Law, which respectively regulate the part time labor agreement and working in maternity period and breast feeding permission. Following these changes, “Regulation on Part-time Work after Maternity Leave and Unpaid Leave” entered into force through publication in the Official Gazette dated 08.11.2016. New amendments in question are broadly about right to use unpaid leave for one-half of working hours and right to work part-time. Thus, regarding the maternity in addition to the right for maternity leave and right for unpaid leave up to six months, right for unpaid leave for one-half of their working hours for a period of sixty days for the first birth, one hundred and twenty days for the second birth, and one hundred and eighty days for any subsequent births and right for part-time employment until the period in which the child starts compulsory elementary education were ensured. It is necessary to investigate all the aspects of these changes legally, which are also highly important in terms of practice. 

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