Employment Law and Labour Law

This article examines the strike ballot mechanism in Turkish labor law, exploring how workers can collectively decide whether to proceed with or reject a strike decision made by their union.

The Turkish Constitutional Court has issued a significant ruling on the principal employer and subcontractor regulations in reinstatement lawsuits, marking a new era in employment law. This decision fundamentally impacts how employment relationships are structured and how reinstatement cases will be handled moving forward. Legal practitioners and employers must understand the implications of this constitutional court cancellation decision.

Employers provide training to their employees both to improve the quality of their workforce and to ensure that the investment made in such training benefits the employment relationship for a certain period of time. For this reason, contractual provisions under which an employee undertakes to remain employed for a certain period after receiving training and, if they leave before the expiry of that period, to reimburse all or part of the training costs are frequently encountered in practice.